CROSSWORD

Across

1 The late shift? (9) 8 Walk like a doctor in drink? (5)

9 Feeble swan cry shows it may be gaunt and bony (7)

10 It may hint a nun is about to join the church (6)

11 A word to stir up topers (6)

12 It will come to the rescue, if able to anyhow (8)

15 Drinking song going around the States (8) 18 Sort of suit or suite (6) 20 Result of a questionable action? (6)

21 Sorting out and putting away (7)

22 Cut the number in custody (5)

23 What a fisherman actually gains from his work? (3,6)

Down

2 Expose oneself to some vain curiosity (5)

3 Ashore drunk and roughvoiced (6)

4 They travel on airships and on canals (8)

5 Temper resulting from upset tea urn (6)

6 Leave an orchestra performing (7)

7 He finds criminals working for the police (9)

11 Possibly, as Hamlet put it, to dream? (9)

13 The mark of a finished writer? (4,4)

14 Deliberate destruction of character maybe (7) 16 Rough? That’s odd (6) 17 Size of a book or volume on love (6)

19 Gin that is a form of bottled spirits (5)