CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Headwear a business area adopts for as much as it will hold (8)

7. Subarctic forest discovered, thanks to a GI turning up (5)

8. Subsequently, a loss-leader is put to the side (7)

9. In a skin-tight garment old tear can be repaired (7)

10. When finished, is in a superior position (4)

12. Outfit nonchalantly displayed but in an unbending way (7)

14. Recipes, if written out, must be accurate (7)

17. A giant bit of pretence (4)

18. Praise bestowed in dual form in the mine (7)

21. A graft I am to put in the garden (7)

22. Hindu class, etc, as it turns out (5)

23. Feeling let down by one’s apartment, indeed (8) DOWN

1. Everyone in Jersey lacking in experience (6)

2. With which one calmly waits for solitaire (8)

3. Nursing that is needed in a geriatric area (4)

4. The man who works the land may turn the craft (6)

5. Twelve-point measure assigned to the magpie (4)

6. Showy but worthless wad: try it out (6)

7. Notwithstanding the time given to a pensée (7)

11. Distaff of which one may slip end out (7)

13. Absent-minded as the artist I’d turned into (8)

14. It’s the Pope’s rule for father in a lively situation (6)

15. It grows in tree if it’s all there (6)

16. Is being made one in duet of a sort (6)

19. Part of the church is perhaps Episcopalian (4)

20. Stone work a lecturer undertakes (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Counterfeit 9. Opera 10. Embonpoint

11. Eagle 12. Reaches 14. Rum 15. Slot 16. Vendor 17. Item 21. Earn

22. Scoops 23. Bare 26. Sue 27. Neatens 29. Regal 30. Anglicises 31. Talon

32. Groundswell

Down 2. Opepe 3. Toothsome 4. Repose 5. Emigrate 6. Totem 7. Bengal

8. Parenthesis 12. Reverberate 13. Aunt 18. Mechanics 19. Arpeggio

20. Code 24. Regale 25. Indian 26. Slang 28. Nasal