CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. What it cost to get to Dutch capital and how one got on there (5)

4. Splits I’d discovered amid low haunts (7)

8. Once more to enlist will upset communist reply to a reply (9)

9. No end of an implement in addition (3)

10. Worked up by curious deceit involving ten (7)

12. So detached as to provide one with some accommodation? (4)

14. James the First, in being hardened, inflicted hurt (7)

17. The ultimate way to get through to the end (4)

18. It turns mechanically in brute potential (7)

20. ‘So curses all ___’s daughters, of what complexion soever’ (Merry Wives) (3)

21. Some stars mythologically rescued from Roman dead (9)

23. Paid the account for having founded the colony (7)

24. Coal dross is not firmly drawn out (5)

DOWN

1. It makes one remember the opposite (13)

2. In France I am taken in by rector with no gold to turn down (6)

3. Being powerless, yet moving (8)

4. No good turn enheartening the Divine (3)

5. True, it’s exactly that (4)

6. Little eyes are, one is told, forming a sort of line (6)

7. Being among the night-wounded, but it’s only guesswork (4,2,3,4)

11. Not to be sure, but to be confused after the party (5)

13. Sober Mod providing overnight accommodation (8)

15. A way of viewing the street with pace changing (6)

16. It makes a nice change with Mother, going to the pictures (6)

19. Don’t pass if it’s confusing with a driver under instruction (4)

22. Performed either way up (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 2. Climb 5. Obey 7. Omit 8. Needless

9. Anchored 11. Well 12. Schizophrenic 15. Aces 17. Shocking

19. Cultural 21. Bait 22. Clap 23. Elder

Down 1. Demonic 2. Cut 3. Inner 4. Breadth 5. Owl 6. Easel 10. Hails

11. Wreck 13. Observe 14. Inn-sign 16. Cruel 18. Oiled 20. Tap 21. Bar