CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. After boiling it may have a duff turnout (7,5)

8. Point to the way it acted in one version (8) 9. Manage to put up with ursa (4) 11. Little Henry may harass one (5) 12. Take a close look at chopper returning to pit (7)

13. Cry of pain when Otago University goes to church (4)

15. It’s the defendant’s answer to a lawsuit in Scotland (4)

19. Pottery town that showed true air of change (7)

20. The seven ball is put up by one making a gaffe (5) 22. Shortly the pari mutuel will carry it (4) 23. Elsewhere Spring to her selection as the prettiest girl around (3,5)

24. Northern Brit makes his mark on rye perhaps (12) DOWN 2. It is beneath one, being subordinate (5) 3. Yes: a CD that gets broken simply wastes away (6)

4. Talk on about the rhyme Hatter made of it (6)

5. A particular form of clasp that is manufactured (7)

6. Car never supplied to a monarch if it’s causing distress (5-7)

7. Standing with the door on one’s left makes the going in legal (5,2,5)

10. It may take a witch to introduce hydrogen to silver (3)

14. Our cart is turned out by the museum official (7)

16. If no alcohol is available, use the towel (3) 17. This sort of sausage from Lima, as a change (6)

18. Everywhere that’s Latin, if in a shrub, I question (6)

21. Betel-nut may be served in square cartons (5)