CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Draw in the hatching for a lamp-cover (5)

4. Have no hope of finding spring: ride uncertainly around (7) 8. Sooner born a Communist, look, having suffered a reverse (5) 9. Tunes the joint sky transport (7)

10. Pot that, given a finish, might be among the brass (3) 11. Shyness making for cold in recent changes (9) 12. Topless, she’d hold end of robe and pay attention (4) 13. Remove covering if you can tolerate the sound of it (4) 18. Careless, neglecting somehow to leave a hundred out (9) 20. Fuel letting Asia assess conclusions (3)

21. Gets in the way of paradise, endlessly involved among devils (7) 22. The Robe finishes off with a heartbeat (5)

23. She is worshipped, which is curious in a non-u conjecture (7) 24. Make one feel humiliated to fake emotion initially (5)

DOWN

1. Break circuit putting on another suit, giving too little back (5-8) 2. It may be heard otherwise to help Blue out (7)

3. Slips by such as make themselves a nuisance losing their head

(6)

4. Scarcity of gold, finally, on the ground (6)

5. Didn’t work as one made the medal (6)

6. Very pale, like ladybird (5)

7. Her peril’s been sorted out, but ought to carry the blame (13)

14. Among other things, semi-German discovery of a country (7)

15. A petty swindle one might get to play with a bow (6)

16. Sorts out the fibres when top of thread slackens off (6)

17. The standing of figures in the street abandoned by the East (6)

19. Looked astonished to see primate embraced by heartless deity

(5)