CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

12/6

ACROSS

1. Personal luggage gets caught (5)

4. Somehow sees around the top, but one gets away with it (7)

8. Religion turns me mad – I’m no sham! (13)

10. Turn out to be eternally at the end of the street (5)

11. Part of a neck may be seen when a pelisse reveals it (4)

12. One, unintelligent, returning to the South of France (4)

16. Didn’t go on, so didn’t begin to get repaired (5)

17. Unit is in total disarray: just like the workhouse! (13)

19. Gus is disheartened: permit entry where hanging’s concerned (7)

20. Part beneath the roof will begin to bulge in a high wind (5)

DOWN

1. Lunch-hour might be considered wasteful of precious moments (4-9)

2. Tree appears and swiftly harbours the starters (3)

3. One who adds up to the warmest time of year (6)

4. The viewer is allowed to receive lace, perhaps (6)

5. They are the main representation as one plots progress (6)

6. Having to do without, Thomas Atkins endlessly has one on (9)

7. Otherwise, an indefinite object is what’s rather special (9,4)

9. One’s assessment of Paris a pal is responsible for (9)

13. Such fine wool is mine – or could be (6)

14. Smells do occur in what’s yours and mine (6)

15. Said lingeringly, ‘Nothing doing inside’ (6)

18. Chelsea confection turned, and that’s the gist of it (3)

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

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WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Suspension 7. Irate 8. Between 10. Attained 11. Idle

13. Phobia 15. Unveil 17. Iota 18. Molluscs 21. Twosome 22. Small

23. Helplessly

Down: 1. Shaft 2. Specific 3. Emblem 4. Sots 5. Overdue 6. Disappoint

9. Needlessly 12. Analysis 14. Outcome 16. Cohere 19. Scary

20. Loop

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTIONS