YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Was a gambler, and passed away when about a hundred (5)

4. Badly cast lip is capable of being moulded (7)

8. Ladies who are single-minded? (9)

9. Raced to give the senior service a centre (3)

10. The open air exit? (7)

12. Capital thus returned, only half lost (4)

14. One may be paid for doing no more work (7)

17. Have pity for a girl (4)

18. So treat it differently from the stone with its hieroglyphics (7)

20. A naughty child, one taken by politician (3)

21. Composer of Cats (trial version) (9)

23. Was bribed, as is apparent in avarice (7)

24. Black-eyed girl who came into flower (5)

DOWN

1. Is putting one off Prom in entering other digs (13)

2. A pass, note, to try right away (6)

3. Find out that the record is finished (8)

4. Writer who gave up work at start of the eighties (3)

5. Thus 9 was unplaced (4)

2. Midas 5. Alps 7. Stun 8. Leathers 9. Betrayal

11. Chef 12. Prescriptions 15. Noon 17. Forceful

19. Compiled 21. Echo 22. Belt 23. Speed

Down: 1. Outwear 2. Man 3. Dolly 4. Scallop 5. Ash 6. Purse

10. Resin 11. Crime 13. Raffles 14. Noughts 16. Ozone

18. Ridge 20. Pat 21. End