CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. It may give one working in wood a turn (5)

5. Something soothing found in a cannibal meal (4)

7. Droop around top of net on encountering this obstacle (4)

8. Shy pupil turned out in a snobbish manner (8)

9. Don’t forget, one is repeatedly told, Guy Fawkes Day (8)

11. A light application of 11 Down colour (4)

12. Distant guide medium has to switch TV on with (6,7)

15. The French are after six in a way that’s horrid (4)

17. Slid rent out to those attached to climbers (8)

19. Imputations about a hundred open shoes (8)

21. Contrive something alcoholic, or make the tea (4)

22. It is the second-hand one is accustomed to (4)

23. Agree with the score (5)

DOWN

1. Yield will cheat the seed, one is told (7)

2. Record of voyage lumberjack might produce (3)

3. Tom was little, but handy (5)

4. Makes part of it show material for paper-making (7)

5. The second letter is to show it’s to be repeated (3)

6. Still upset, sings cheerfully (5) 25/7

10. What made Herod eat away inside (5)

11. Irrigate the colour for 11 Across (5)

13. A passage out of a religious pamphlet (7)

14. Lubricate thoroughly, and it may produce a gusher (3-4)

16. The anvil bone broken by cousin, nothing less (5)

18. Is nosy-sounding (5)

20. Signify one’s assent to the land of sleep (3)

21. It will sound like a hound along the coast (3)