CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. The someone up there who’ll look after one (8,5)

8. Sort of soft-centred (4-7)

12. One goes through the drawers to find the guns (6)

14. Knocked lightly and got the screw-thread cut (6)

16. Runnel in a backstreet makes a tremulous sound (6)

18. The real game is sent in a spin (6)

19. There is a lee one could turn into spirit (11)

23. Make a complete pig of oneself utterly to commit to it (2,3,5,3)

DOWN

1. It is even the time for it (4)

2. Do so, and bear it with a broad smile (4)

3. Aerials one brings to the table? (6)

4. It can’t be altered, being whole (6)

5. A swelling may make a tangle in one’s hair (4)

6. A bugle drawn by a marksman (4)

9. Do some damage to one with carbon in flint perhaps (7)

10. Uses money or energy previous spouse might spend otherwise (7)

11. A date in old Rome put inside senate (4)

12. Was author, one hears, using mechanical memory (4)

13. Measure that was taken from the arm pulled up inside (3)

15. A hole in one card (3)

17. Bad writing consists of initial serif and a stroke (6)

18. In which to brew the cup that cheers (6)

19. Greek god who gave up being angry (4)

20. A vertical drop in the sound of laughter (2-2)

21. I’d found half of them the same in Latin (4)

22. Black bone composition (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

Down:

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