CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Give one a medal to put the paper up (8)

7. It is plain one will get over it (5)

8. React differently at home, that’s for sure (7)

9. It illustrates site of the Taj Mahal in an ill-lit setting (7)

10. How sentimental an ineffectual person may be (4)

12. Venus, or form of her that makes one apprehensive (7)

14. Nothing in an area of hardened skin is so unfeeling (7)

17. It may hold back its support (4)

18. Something to be copied out of maple perhaps (7)

21. Particle not charged to turn one around (7)

22. Device like a clock one may send back (5)

23. Drawing a sort of cleaner fuel (8)

DOWN

1. Tenth of a century rotted in one’s ears (6)

2. Street festival may get fleshly around four (8)

3. Old Spanish coin that’s genuine (4)

4. Sinew in end not to be replaced (6)

5. One liked to be expensive (4)

6. The first inter pares to have a stove (6)

7. Vexation caused by nag, rich though she may be (7)

11. One would do well to be decorous about first sin (7)

13. Biblical composition for speaker: one has nothing more (8)

14. Make something out of last piece in the box (6)

15. Sulphur gives fish its bad odour (6)

16. Church song-book has many a variation between high and low (6)

19. Men enlisted in popular mythology (4)

20. If the ‘r’ sticks in one’s throat it sticks to one’s clothes (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Mammoth 5. Copious 9. Dissenter 10. Istle 11. Incur

12. Heartless 13. First-hand 16. Sugar 17. Timid 18. Variously

20. Pensioner 23. Woman 25. Total 26. Aristotle 27. Rosette

28. Exhorts

Down: 1. Midriff 2. Music 3. Overrated 4. Hatch 5. Coriander

6. Paint 7. Outweighs 8. Spenser 14. Ruminates 15. Advantage

16. Stop-watch 17. Tipster 19. Yankees 21. Inlet 22. Raise

24. Motor