TELEGRAPH CROSSWORDS

Across

1 Spring garment top lady discarded (4) 3 Repeated ceremony outside front of embassy highly thought of (10) 8 Sort of Egyptian policeman with stick bounds off (6) 9 Bishop to sin in famous wedding location in Aussie city (8) 10 Remain cheerful as listener in inn being bowled over (4,2) 11 Guide one vehicle around to face entrance (8) 12 Sign given by a queen, a king, and one leading American (8) 14 Nothing for securing a collar (4) 16 Weep, having not finished work for harvest (4) 18 Set off to see sweetheart maybe outside school (8) 19 Phoney copies us, phoney looking good initially (8) 20 Dish youngster eats quietly behind house (6) 21 Communication signal from character at back of group (8) 22 Male like Uriah Heep to talk indistinctly (6) 23 Sweet container taken around and held up (10) 24 Native skirts round island, holy place (4)

Down

1 400-year-old material,

account old boy’s hidden away (8) 2 The old man’s alert, nap having been disturbed (8) 3 Get back, using transport outside city area (9) 4 Absurdity of cunning ruse,

so, so misguided (15) 5 Popular novelist to steal

from rubbish containers (7) 6 Fighter in Carmen hurried, having met love briefly (8) 7 Bird landed finally on slope

(5) 13 Has man due to be disciplined to be repentant? No (9) 15 Facility of some cafes in Bury, without any charge (8) 16 Money section’s last bit in church newspaper (8) 17 Criticise article about building in Rome (8) 18 Wanderer has feet keeping less wet? The opposite! (7) 19 Please say nothing when given Polish drink (5)