CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

11/2 ACROSS

1. Slim ends changed without bitterness (8)

7. Something insubstantial used by drinker who’s a sucker (5)

8. Where in the home to install a ring? (3-4)

9. Heartless friend getting beneath the loot (7)

10. For every single, topless fruit (4)

12. What was once plenty for an instance (7)

14. It had a light sort of mantle (3-4)

17. It may affect one’s emotions, prison (4)

18. The same again? No heart change (7)

21. Give me kid we sort out around Wednesday (7)

22. It is about tone that is meant to pick one up (5)

23. It accentuated how tense one felt (8)

DOWN

1. Was a victim of the mass, perhaps (6)

2. Lines cox maybe gets from dictionaries (8)

3. Nobody fails to finish at midday (4)

4. Something to try me, pals have arranged (6)

5. The Northern pole one walked underfoot (4)

6. Bring it to table around start of week, but go off-course (6)

7. Sounds like a stuck pig as one is an informer (7)

11. Rich gap created by being picturesquely described (7)

13. Like North and South, East and West may dance together (8)

14. Allows people’s money awards (6)

15. It lets one tire MP out (6)

16. Bed Ark provided as one slowed down (6)

19. Admits nothing three ways (4)

20. Be lazy, like pantomime Jack (4)