CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It concentrates the rays for the fire-raiser (7-5)

8. Is turning on one and finishing it off (8)

9. An arm, say, length one metre, and breadth (4)

11. The bay at home has got a tenant (5)

12. A dashing young man as a lover of women (7)

13. This vein of ore sounds a burden (4)

15. It’s the rhythm that will get the better of one (4)

19. One peer’s right about it and will draw breath (7) 20. Sound like a little bird, sentimentally pretty, on treetop (5) 22. Keep an appointment if it’s suitable (4)

23. Storyline of film no care is taken with (8)

24. Nothing can be as good-looking as London Pride (4-2-6)

DOWN

2. Saul took a forbidden turn like this to be customary (5) 3. Untidy form of it having no cover (6)

4. Made one nag about one’s lack of years (6) 5. Breathe life into it to mean it a different way (7)

6. The replacement bus is out – in TT, perhaps (12) 7. The gunner in tram really is put out (12) 10. Steadily work at one’s trade in the strand (3) 14. Make out a way to rescind it (7)

16. It may be suitable as a division of a poem (3) 17. Military policeman who gets the bird (6)

18. Can set out with a different attitude (6)

21. Bird starts gliding in a different tree (5)