CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 1 Instrumental in enjoying good health, comparatively speaking? (3,2,1,6)

7 Pale and portable, possibly.. (5)

8 ...unlike this, grand as it may be (5)

9 Part of a discontinued container (3)

10 Anticipate everyone following the wood (9) 11 An excellent meal - or just a sandwich filler? (6)

12 Crept along surreptitiously after the burglary (6)

15 Made one's mark, having been forced into service (9)

17 Passenger on wrong train appears to be a bit of one! (3)

18 Part of a long poem to follow 9's equivalent (5) 19 What the thief did, inversely speaking, to obtain a mass of gold, perhaps (5)

21 Peripatetic supporter? (7-5) Down 1 _Field of Battle__” is a single article found at beginning of the book (12) 2 Sink down and back 20 (3) 3 We never catch up with it! (6)

4 Left side opted to change (9)

5 Public walk back with a South American animal (5) 6 Cattle on wheels - in the goods yard? (7-5)

7 Vessel found in areas where Nile waters flow back (5)

10 Outline to contrive employment (9)

13 When said, it is said to be repaired the most speedily (5)

14 Make over like an emblem (6)

16 Animal to procure, so to speak (5)

20 Empty (but explosive?) talk (3)