CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. One pressed in order to make it vanish (8)

4. It can be responsible for a hold-up in the middle (4)

8. A seer can go back and forth (3)

9. Concede everything and nothing to the West (5)

10. Amusement got from the endless money supply (3)

11. How to write in noted fashion (7)

12. Cut first car in its traffic stream (5)

13. Make it cite paper for wandering (11)

17. Aim to return, via motorway, to one US city (5)

18. It has pot to smoke (7)

20. It is not in China one will get tea (3)

21. This side is close to one at sea (5)

22. One will take on such a particle (3)

23. Understand leading Democrat to be chosen tournament player (4)

24. Spiritless fellow, daredevil when beheaded (8)

DOWN

1. Thoroughly soak one with a dose of physic (6)

2. Vapour coming from tea’s starting to moisten (5)

3. A classical greeting for ointment (5)

5. Find fee for creating old Turkish title (7)

6. Feeling sore, seeing it follow locomotive (6)

7. Maybe grew silent, it was so hot (10)

9. Naval rating, not a copy of one in Australia (10)

14. Name tea that could arise from a source (7)

15. Has a flavour of fishing-boats (6)

16. Has she any carnivores like this? (6)

18. Piece of garlic for a completely different flavour (5)

19. It is no sophisticated painting style (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Fragrance 5. Tor 7. Inns 8. Crossing 10. Toymaker

11. Plot 13. Demons 15. Sudden 18. Don’t 19. Moralist

22. Coverage 23. Wake 24. Sir 25. Wrestlers

Down: 1. Flirted 2. Annoy 3. Nursed 4. Erse 5. Trilled 6. Right

9. Canny 12. Mural 14. Miniver 16. Natters 17. Toggle

18. Docks 20. Irate 21. Grow