CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Tree that was painful in its application (5)

4. Times do change for supplier of fashionable dresses (7)

8. Bury it or return to gate around four, question mark? (13)

10. I believe it to be Latin (5)

11. Indefinite way to distribute fodder round zoo initially (4)

12. Is every report so up to date? (4)

16. Choose to return one’s candidate (5)

17. No carryings-on at social. But this man’s wronged in suit (8,5)

19. What’s extractive makes sense to half the race (7)

20. One who would sooner be born a tree? (5)

DOWN

1. Be hit, Sir: prime cause of its disbanding? (7,6)

2. Animal to smell with suspicion (3)

3. Being a poet, he was about to upset Cora (6)

4. How do more get tied up? (6)

5. Fabulous beast it would be grand to have around the circle (6)

6. It is the side of craft a posh bird might adapt to (9)

7. Form of service that’s performed a bit late in the day (7,6)

9. Instrument for one who can’t be bothered picking things up? (4-5)

13. Ode can be composed by a churchman (6)

14. At which one may be in touch with those out of this world (6)

15. The right sort of diet to pin one’s faith to? (6)

18. Perch it’s right to do up (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Eased 4. Yawning 8. Turnround 9. Vat 10. Exposes

12. Etch 14. Corners 17. Noes 18. Cantata 20. Use

21. Predicate 23. Sternum 24. Gated

Down: 1. Entrepreneurs 2. Straps 3. Derision 4. You 5. Wide

6. Invite 7. Get the go-ahead 11. Sonic 13. Branding

15. Revere 16. Savant 19. Span 22. Elm