CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

20/4

ACROSS

1. A doctor’s work may be just a run-through (8)

7. Clock will sound as mice run round the 13 (5)

8. His theft is of the low variety (7)

9. He constructs rule bid will destroy (7)

10. It is properly a month with initial change (4)

12. Nor yet might it be in there (7)

14. Romance may have come from here violins, certainly (7)

17. Extension from circuit given back-up in the Southern Region (4)

18. Cap lies in a way that’s out of the ordinary (7)

21. Letter of spite perhaps given to the French (7)

22. Aka a Lower Jurassic term (5)

23. Quarter-bushel found in snow vehicle marked with spots (8)

DOWN

1. A take-off might be profitable if Rod is in it (6)

2. Unlimited as to blue that can be used (8)

3. Conversation with a semi-mortal king (4)

4. Method of dating one used to copy (6)

5. Gentle beginnings meant it lost deposit (4)

6. Awful fright, the last great mistake (6)

7. Style of cooking putting us in ice for a change (7)

11. Tales of the South going to the Conservative side (7)

13. It has its wards at Polish sort-out (8)

14. Off-handed way California takes its country back up inside (6)

15. Is not conscious of how it might please (6)

16. Chum cooked last of mutton in it (6)

19. Very bad falsehood given up when about five (4)

20. How hard is concrete that it should hold what’s compact? (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Eskimos 4. Cockpit 8. Diet 9. Surmounted 11. Aboard

12. Quenched 14. On the trot 15. Raced 17. Rifle 18. Anonymous

19. Etherise 21. Heckle 23. Law-abiding 24. Halo 25. Sayings

26. Blanket

1. Endeavour 2. Keep out of the way 3. Soup

4. Combustion 5. Churn 6. Put the clock back 7. Tided 10. Frieze

13. Broadsides 15. Rhymed 16. Dished out 19. Eblis 20. Robin

22. Snob

Down: