CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. 7. 9. 11. 12. 14.

Worshipful company exchanging words in race (11) If scent is misapplied, it makes one ill (7)

Urges one on with lay product (4)

This point is the cynosure for incomplete state (5) There’s a great fight to fatten one (6) Likelihood of breaking bail when surrounded by honesty

(11)

18. In New York, etc, one finds degree of precision (6)

20. One who admits he’s one of the ‘haves’ (5)

22. Birds that are slow to develop (4)

23. Plagiarism one is raising to a new level (7)

24. Phrases responsible for such casts of features? (11)

DOWN 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 10. 13. 15. 16. 17. 19. 21.

Person of rank in force, if required (7) Likewise it appears in several solutions (4)

The correct direction (5)

Fellow waving fist about gets into squabbles (5) How to introduce a door-keeper (5)

Bet Alice would have been upset by living single (8) Cancels everything, and might scoff about it (5,3) Decline to be up before breakfast begins (3) Suppressed excitement one isn’t capable of (7) Soon turns to Peeping Tom, the first to pry (5) Boasts about looking right in trousers (5) Flower part formed in clay somehow before ten (5) A positive sign there’s an additional factor (4)