CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Stopped losing head, and slackened off (5)

4. Is gaping wide at any wing that’s broken (7)

8. Time between landing and takeoff will face the other way (9)

9. Fermentation tank shows huge loss of sulphur (3)

10. Previous partner puts a question that lays one bare (7)

12. Sweet chestnut showing how to design it on a plate (4)

14. Gains a monopoly on free shots (7)

17. They vote against motion one’s formulated (4)

18. Is able, at twice making a comeback, to provide choral music (7)

20. It may be one’s habit to be an employer (3)

21. To assert that tea is priced incorrectly (9)

23. Turns me around by the breastbone (7)

24. Georgia and Edward, punished by being kept in (5)

DOWN

1. How those taking risks in business may represent rune (13)

2. It beats one, how the South parts from it (6)

3. How Ironside turned to mockery (8)

4. The second person to appear in every outing (3)

5. An extra dew formed around one (4)

6. Ask one to put it in a different vein (6)

7. Receive the OK to obtain turn in advance (3,3,2-5)

11. It is about the sound of coins being rattled (5)

13. And fetch it round when making one’s mark (8)

15. Venerate one for being always re-embraced (6)

16. Wise man can’t quite rescue an emmet (6)

19. It may stretch over a pair of horses (4)

22. Timber used up in a hamlet (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 2. Rifle 5. Opal 7. Axle 8. Stallion 9. Accredit 11. Fend

12. Introductions 15. Stun 17. Brothers 19. Uppercut

21. Boon 22. Grid 23. Evert

1. Mexican 2. Rye 3. Fused 4. Elastic 5. Oil 6. Adorn

10. Rerun 11. Faith 13. Debacle 14. Nervous 16. Toper

18. Outré 20. End 21. Bat

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