CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Is daring to change after amusement of getting money for the cause (11)

7. It works, having given me chain to put out (7)

9. Go obliquely south to some Botanical Gardens (4)

11. The chaps one finds along the coast (5)

12. Refrain from having to carry such a load (6)

14. The extravagance I’d pay girl to sort out (11)

18. The uniform of a person’s servants made him irritable (6)

20. Students’ club at university in no different guise (5)

22. The written word may be one’s subject for a sermon (4)

23. A runner may be allowed in mixed heat (7)

24. Can use a mill to sort out such microscopic creatures (11)

DOWN

2. Reveal what gives the peacemakers insurance (7)

3. Ex-pat can’t quite make the topmost point (4)

4. Dane could have held king, having nothing on (5)

5. This could give one a flavour of chastisement (5)

6. Be so boastful, one could ask the Northwest for change (5)

8. They may have privileged information about one in dress (8)

10. Leave one’s mink on a lake in Ireland (8)

13. Get older part in Aida, generally (3)

15. A galley might get to retire around start of Millennium (7)

16. A Fate who didn’t finish the material (5)

17. Sound contemptuous at being seen around with rebel leader (5)

19. She’s an animal next to be curtailed, turning up after six (5)

21. Become enamoured of autumn in America (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across 1. Deposit 5. Depot 8. Evident 9. Panel

10. Defection 12. Duo 13. Nerve 17. Kip 19. Overtaken 21. Larva

22. Misform 24. Yeast 25. Tactful

Down 1. Dreads 2. Painful 3. She 4. Tutti 5. Dependent 6. Pined 7. Tallow

11. Consonant 14. Rake-off 15. Skilly 16. Animal 18. Parka 20. Emmet

23. Sec