CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Plain plinth comes close to being destroyed (5)

4. To merit being half made to do time in the army (7)

8. Will not be noticed as receipt be: limp form, instead (13)

10. River one might ignore, nothing being missing (5)

11. Top singer in Heavy Metal lookalike (4)

12. Part of large house at the side of the stage (4)

16. Portion of crusty dish and cabbage first and last (5)

17. With which one won’t be let down with ability to fill in so (13)

19. Binding material will go on when everything is inside it (7)

20. One in the norm is wrong to be of lesser import (5)

DOWN

1. Sparkling with icing: all tints can be provided (13)

2. Constable starts canvas over primer (3)

3. Make a mistake, also find what may be run (6)

4. Medical man is on the brink and will dig it up from bed (6)

5. It takes off as it re-assembles (6)

6. Revolt of the East, ill borne out (9)

7. Late service given near pyre built for it (7,6)

9. Very lovely it may be, but a fuel one might use in pieces (9)

13. Sun-god got it all wrong: work came to nothing (6)

14. A lot of Roman soldiers, their name being beyond numbering (6)

15. Monotony could make it die in one’s belly (6)

18. Where one may be entertained at home with television finally (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Chair 4. Special 8. Monograph 9. Lot 10. Entered

12. Once 14. Curtain 17. AWOL 18. Regalia 20. Ill 21. Challenge

23. Endless 24. Resit

Down: 1. Commemorative 2. Agnate 3. Rigorous 4. Spa 5. Echo

6. Island 7. Letters-patent 11. Deter 13. Singular 15. Boiled

16. Flanks 19. Acre 22. Ass