CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Misplace nothing inside a scrum of this sort (5)

4. A Lancashire town that kept going, one hears (7)

8. Work out how to act: a clue given, when about fifty (9)

9. Movement one can’t help sounding like credit (3)

10. A girl involved in a Hawaiian net test (7)

12. The web, a late development (4)

14. It is a sad old fuel mixture (7)

17. Eastern European returned almost whole waltz to France (4)

18. Spirit may be shown in hard work, causing great upset (7)

20. In the Diplomatic Corps, a person who’s a rotter (3)

21. CD due? IOUs needed to be shed (9)

23. Is confined to company of such a sort (7)

24. Should one cotton on to such dances? (5)

DOWN

1. Be short of a laic dais for the listless (13)

2. Go up to fish when giving one the eye (6)

3. Reduction to a common standard necessary in algebra (8)

4. Vegetable may be sweet if it comes into bloom (3) 26/7

5. See the West is upset by such animals (4)

6. Stagger along with a rag-and-bone man (6)

7. Must bolt: can is spilled by those such as Lady Macbeth (13)

11. In overturning tree, ten bring it into active operation (5)

13. Dismissed the jockey for a carriage attendant (8)

15. Met up with – and entered – a bicycle made for two (6)

16. Is downcast, having received nothing in code (6)

19. Set in order the neap that turns up (4)

22. Fish shortly to be paid for at the door (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 2. Lathe 5. Balm 7. Snag 8. Uppishly 9. Remember

11. Wash 12. Remote control 15. Vile 17. Tendrils

19. Scandals 21. Brew 22. Used 23. Tally

Down: 1. Concede 2. Log 3. Thumb 4. Esparto 5. Bis 6. Lilts

10. Erode 11. Water 13. Extract 14. Oil-well 16. Incus

18. Nasal 20. Nod 21. Bay