CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Fit one out, with age, with carriage and attendants (5)

4. In such circumstances one is poorly situated (7)

8. Virginia is allowed to get a man’s man (5)

9. A government like Mussolini’s, if scam’s involved in it (7)

10. Tried for office – and managed it (3)

11. Passes on the easy manner in which one wins (5,4)

12. Wren may have constructed a stacking set of tables (4)

13. Show one’s contempt for what the spade turns up (4)

18. Is effusive as pain vexes it so (9)

20. A tropical plant found in an apiary (3)

21. It could be effective, being a sneak (7)

22. He can perform the haka, or am I mistaken? (5)

23. Reel about with 10 as a beginner (7)

24. Old articles of wood to enter like this (5)

DOWN

1. It is about living conditions in Levant, or men it turns out (13)

2. But such heights are downs! (7)

3. Piece put on at end of May is good only in parts (6)

4. How to apply subtlety in free translation (6)

5. The sort of side street that will go no further (6)

6. Capital is what is breathed into company (5)

7. It goes to show the protest is a public one (13)

14. So a Pope turns to a brave child (7)

15. Officer proves to be non-u in the ensuing disorder (6)

16. We grin perhaps while he plays on the side (6)

17. Trim he may be, in his solitary life (6)

19. Dance performed in a dotty sort of way (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Participant 8. Uvula 9. Visible

10. Midweek 11. Award 12. Tedium 14. Pelvis 18. Light 19. Toddled

21. Mariner 23. Apart 24. Down-hearted

Down 1. Plummet 2. Rounded 3. Image 4. Invoke 5. Assuage 6. Tab

7. Blend 13. Up to now 15. Valiant 16. Sedated 17. Starch 18. Limit

20. Drama 22. Rid