CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Get one out in a round for three voices (5) 4. Syntax has little weight with half the market (7) 8. Food may turn, but it takes people in (9) 9. Is endlessly declared to be a monkey (3) 10. Told how one had familial connections (7) 12. A term for a small beer (4) 14. Lay it on one and make one suffer (7) 17. Number of sheets are laid out on mountaintop (4) 18. Being learned, has to die true to form (7) 20. Sort of drawing it’s certain Kipling used (3) 21. The way one writes who one is (9) 23. Spelling OK all-rite is a mistake in print (7) 24. Turn out, always on time (5)

DOWN 1. Arousing dispute over con’s trial being rigged (13) 2. Story about non-drinker may be just idle talk (6) 3. Giving one a lift when entertaining one inside (8) 4. Get a horse to move on with a whiz, say (3) 5. Singer engaged in several Tosca performances (4) 6. Service book shows girl I’m giving up (6) 7. Strengthening tonic men refer to (13) 11. Dig deep and find some stranded elvers (5) 13. Account a man of the cloth gives is precise (8) 15. A lot of money to be made in a block of coded data (6) 16. Work out one’s vital statistics (6) 19. It may be so friendly to one on drugs (4) 22. Pin-up will begin to take shape (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across 2. Batik 5. Firm 7. Hoop 8. Renegade 9. Misnomer 11. Blow 12. Short and sweet 15. Apse 17. Thresher 19. Mystique 21. Draw 22. Belt 23. Every Down 1. Abolish 2. Bap 3. Thrum 4. Kindred 5. Fag 6. Radio 10. Norse 11. Bowls 13. Antique 14. Elegant 16. Payee 18. Reeve 20. Tot 21. Dry