CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

7/11

ACROSS

1. Final way ices are made in an underground bar (8)

4. A stopper to give a mention to on the air (4)

8. Insert FX into script and take action at pool (3)

9. Heathen finding pot that contains silver (5)

10. Not including weight of packing one may get from the sea (3)

11. Completely plunder old pies for it (7)

12. The American era of normal speech patterns (5)

13. Paper aside, the old pennies vanished like this (11)

17. Policeman and artist one gets coconut oil from (5)

18. Wet link formed with what a star will do (7)

20. Neither is it an alternative (3)

21. Put too much water in the Scotch to lose one’s life (5)

22. Cover the cake with diamonds (3)

23. Cry one finds in the Shetlands (4)

24. Cheeky, finding fish here off the Isle of Wight (8)

DOWN

1. Fish in a river one will convert to plain language (6)

2. Tax one for holding the right salad plant (5)

3. Watch kept a classic poet right away (5)

5. Ancestry of angel that is transferable (7)

6. Flame will threaten to go out if there’s water in it (6)

7. Electrical shielding lets one tan, using sun-oil (10)

9. Spread of information to have a proper look at, one is told (10)

14. Prime change before ‘49 would put one at hazard (7)

15. Is able to be in a pig-pen if there’s not much of it (6)

16. Become less severe with the French in what tenant must pay (6)

18. Plant spine Old English writer used (5)

19. It cuts fine somehow imposed on king (5)