CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It can be responsible for a slice in a joint undertaking (7,5)

8. Recommend a barrister to a Scot (8)

9. End it at the full point (4)

11. Bay of the Nile turning to Egypt finally (5)

12. Singer got nothing, being in the wrong corner (7)

13. Vegetable that may be sprung, one hears (4)

15. Side one encountered backing round end of arena (4)

19. Old boys may be very loud in their odd rages (7)

20. Sap the Engineers do wrong to provide (5)

22. What old timers held in their thousands (4)

23. Spanish miss one creating a stir (8)

24. Jumpers may give it a turn (8,4)

DOWN

2. It is smith’s object in striking (5)

3. Leave the premises at getting in the wrong cave (6)

4. Happen to see a theatrical criticism in print (6)

5. Has seen tin buckling, it’s so concentrated (7)

6. Let proportional representation examine it on a trial basis (12)

7. They get inside picture of wireless and go up in the charts (12)

10. Is shy of company at the end of the day (3)

14. It was a Turkish title that would finish in Fife somehow (7)

16. Some low-lying land in 14 (3)

17. In the main, is going backwards (6)

18. In hazard ourselves, we show warmth of feeling (6)

21. Do too little in a material way (5)