CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Order one cord to be made free (5)

4. Old woman will make a thousand dollars before lunch (7)

8. One at pains, one is told, to see what he could buy (6,7)

10. It looks forbidding, the back of the ship (5)

11. It’s a big blow having a lesson contain it (4)

12. A cardinal point in transformation of a number of airmen (4)

16. Three-day contest in the seventies (5)

17. Save for charged particle, everything unknown is not usually seen (13)

19. Coins were given in biblical times for natural aptitudes (7)

20. To deviate out of here’s possible (5)

DOWN

1. Where one finds letters of the afternoon at Ten (7,6)

2. Universal demand on bank for payment will speedily go (3)

3. Pick nothing the French have a thing about (6)

4. One over-effusive and well-oiled? (6)

5. Decks the Navy in a sort of soda (6)

6. Extending from column into line, as might Pole in expiring (9)

7. At which hands are brought together piously early (7,6)

9. I call it op that in a way is to do with government (9)

13. River a writer will colour more intensely (6)

14. Is neglectful, concerning what doesn’t score (6)

15. How one tolerates tripods (6)

18. Shelter found in terrible, exposed setting (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Loose 4. Preston 8. Calculate 9. Tic 10. Annette

12. Tela 14. Doleful 17. Slav 18. Turmoil 20. Cad

21. Deciduous 23. Limited 24. Reels

Down: 1. Lackadaisical 2. Ogling 3. Equation 4. Pea 5. Ewes

6. Totter 7. Noctambulists 11. Exert 13. Outrider 15. Tandem

16. Morose 19. Edit 22. Cod