CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. It is a bit of an untidy fight (5)

5. Old politician who started to hesitate in transformation (4)

7. It is merely being without others (4)

8. In sets, there are two ways for them to be adult (5-3)

9. Support for physical education that lasted out (8)

11. Clock it, if you’ve time for putting (4)

12. Need train time to be spelled out if it’s not certain (13)

15. One who is entertaining a vast multitude (4)

17. Agreeable sea-change in the vegetable organism (8)

19. Spanish-American ranch can hide a fugitive (8)

21. A tramp will need nothing more than a surface to cook on (4)

22. He takes a linctus first to make it better (4)

23. Veer around to leading yacht, none being excluded (5)

DOWN

1. Some anxiety as to the business enterprise (7)

2. For instance, hear it as rumour (3)

3. A direction one is entitled to (5)

4. Sort of child who’s a source of perplexity (7)

5. Be successful now, and separate corn from chaff (3)

6. One politician the Spanish will incite to action (5)

10. Put forth strength, as last box tree might (5)

11. One less than evil spirit is less than the family (5)

13. The breadth of axe pens can be made by (7)

14. May be held to be an elt, otherwise (7)

16. Make speeches that are to be written out (5)

18. Make one proud to take up some of the talent (5)

20. It is not well to give the Italian Latin (3)

21. Fodder, seed of which is rustic (3) MONDAY’S SOLUTION Across: MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Builders 7. Germs 8. Wonderful 9. Nil 10. Debt 11. Framed

13. Stepping stone 15. Teemed 16. Star 18. Pew 20. Loosening

21. Slays 22. Sketched

Down: 1. Bowed 2. Ignoble 3. Duet 4. Reference book 5. Grand

6. Isolate 7. Glimpse 12. Appeals 13. Suppose 14. Ostrich 15. Tweak

17. Rigid 19. Best

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS