CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. Something that grows like a fruit and alcohol drink (5)

5. The university members starting graduation now around (4)

7. It will fall and drop, as a flower (4)

8. Dry times which should be surrounded by doctors (8)

9. May be cross, gen being given out by legislative assembly (8)

11. The bit that may come away (4)

12. Eye science is myth all go for, hoop being changed (13)

15. A lover is forsaken by one such bird (4)

17. An alloy for cannon meant lug had to be moved about (8)

19. Direct the Spanish from an abandoned ship (8)

21. From a distance call it a shower of missiles (4)

22. Work doggedly at making goals, following a loss (4)

23. Is this the limit reached by one doing the rounds? (5)

DOWN

1. Fowl accommodation given the chop, one might put it (3-4)

2. Ply one’s needle in three ways (3)

3. A high feature removing the top of Golden Gate, say (5)

4. It will come into bloom with grog on the nose (7)

5. Stop one saying a one-liner (3)

6. Dilute Adam’s ale (5)

10. Become older in years, and thrive (3,2)

11. It beats the seeds from leguminous plants (5)

13. How to ruin 5, having a row (7)

14. One’s seriousness is what exerts its pull (7)

16. Spoke in it, to change direction (5)

18. Jotted down how well-known it was (5)

20. Work unit that is therefore incomplete (3)

21. Sort of fever hit by one on going to bed (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Sweet-William 8. Absentee 9. Deal 11. Needs

12. Chariot 13. Oral 15. Wear 19. Tribute 20. Rhomb 22. Ovid

23. Devotion 24. Time-honoured

Down: 2. Waste 3. Ernest 4. Wrench 5. Itemise 6. Military band 7. Rainbow trout 10. War 14. Animism 16. Bun

17. Severn 18. Ormolu 21. Opine