CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Rescue ointment Roman would greet one with (5)

4. To go off-colour will spoil one’s reputation (7)

8. Pale – like when being flaked? (2,5,2,4)

10. It’s the fad to cover it with small cracks (5)

11. A hundred and one in shape for an ice cream (4)

12. The main chance always has to yield this much (4)

16. Keep an eye on hunter, perhaps (5)

17. Angle fighter doesn’t come out of ring-wise (7,6)

19. People who recount stories in banks? (7)

20. Rate at which to choose Wimbledon player, quietly included (5)

DOWN

1. Would-be ministers in opposition dog the case (6,7)

2. The Mosaic code, as a rule (3)

3. Show how the city of canals has been destroyed (6)

4. The veto on one from an old city (6)

5. Bacon was to be found among the poor, as heraldry shows us (6)

6. The harmlessness of freedom from legal guilt (9)

7. What way, for goodness’ sake, is there method of being terrestrially contained? (3,2,3,5)

9. Constant way to nail Count, unfortunately (9)

13. Dish up around the West but go off course (6)

14. Homes needed for horses as engine dies (6)

15. Fires new growths on plants (6)

18. Shows how she was born to be in one environment (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Siren 4. Plaudit 8. Temperate 9. Nil

10. Insults 12. Kepi 14. Entries 17. Rook 18. Plateau 20. Tip 21. Dreadlock

23. Yardage 24. Dusty

Down 1. Sitting pretty 2. Remiss 3. Needling 4. Pea 5. Amen 6. Dinner

7. Talking turkey 11. Strap 13. Demanded 15. Copper 16. Demons 19. Idea

22. Eye