CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Shove livery first in material like velvet (5)

4. Lady part-employed as crest-maker (7)

8. Dish is decorated with herbs from his garden (9)

9. Will regret what a Frenchman has to drive on (3)

10. Drank it back very quietly and went ahead (7)

12. Make something woolly and furrow one’s brows (4)

14. Mountain that appears where no downs could be (7)

17. Mae, about ten, went back to school to sit it (4)

18. Get into new formation, or purge may be applied (7)

20. When poorly one starts lunch late (3)

21. Train a guard to ride range (9)

23. To see what people say about rep, laid it out (3-4)

24. Awful fear of being deceased around end of year (5)

DOWN

1. But her picture didn’t make the cover! (4,5,4)

2. Give pie run-around if it’s not ready to eat (6)

3. Very fine fracture that recedes as baldness increases (8)

4. What a smoker may knock off a tree (3)

5. Spring, say, out of diet (4)

6. Message run, run in Arden maybe (6)

7. Having a happy disposition hardened following dessert (5-8)

11. In a doctor one will be indebted to a jointure (5)

13. Yearn to have the cards dealt to write it out in full (8)

15. To go flat out means everything and nothing in a family doctor (6)

16. Being nicely mannered, an Eastern European takes it in (6)

19. The monster turns up in another gory story (4)

22. ‘They say he made a good ____’ (Hamlet) (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 2. Stoop 5. Amok 7. Fact 8. Bruising

9. Rejected 11. Rude 12. Curtain-raiser 15. Pair 17. Division 19. Eventual

21. Boil 22. Flog 23. Tread

Down 1. Plateau 2. Sit 3. Orbit 4. Plunder 5. Ass 6. Owned 10. Enter

11. Rails 13. In doubt 14. Emotive 16. Anvil 18. Value 20. Nag 21. Bad