CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. No crest put out by the country can cause such dismay (13)

8. The care private might take to evade the truth (11)

12. The sort of wealth that’s not spoken about? (6)

14. A forbidding way to move back at sea (6)

16. Lay bare the end due to be changed (6)

18. ‘U’ sort of form at start of year? (6)

19. Give us salt on it (a change from greetings) (11)

23. What one leaving has (to go to station for?) (1,5,2,5)

DOWN

1. It might as well turn up the deck at the stern… (4)

2. … as might its actual existence (4)

3. Till is put up in recognition of service (6)

4. It is like quinsy in a nag maybe (6)

5. It is famous to all who hold a covered colonnade (4)

6. It may burrow, or act as a breakwater (4)

9. Road nut takes around a building with a dome (7)

10. Treachery, a crime era’s not responsible for (7)

11. Except that it is without others of its sort (4)

12. Disentangle what is partly sound, often (4)

13. Cover used in the holidays (3)

15. Girl who has volatile smelling-salts (3)

17. To what this is it’s about the size of it (6)

18. Yarn for bed that’s not up to it (6)

19. A place to build the sound of vision (4)

20. Meadow quietly finished, as it’s spring (4)

21. As it’s spoken, the point of the fable is not begun (4)

22. It is a bag of old Spanish wine (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Overwrought 7. Reverse 9. Slap 11. Melts

12. Ribald 14. Dismembered 18. Retire 20. Image 22. Arch

23. Vedette 24. Stickleback

Down: 2. Vivaldi 3. Reel 4. Halma 5. Frame 6. Spade

8. Rosemary 10. Firebird 13. Amp 15. Elastic 16. Bread

17. Sewer 19. Tacit 21. Evil