CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. Desert garden a flower arranger will stick blooms in (5)

5. Right behind at sea is a floating structure (4)

7. Lofty story one is unlikely to believe (4)

8. Girl with nothing but a Gallery to make remarks on (8)

9. Said test was wrong and showed dislike of it (8)

11. One is completely satisfied to eat one’s (4)

12. How the car is raced showing particular traits (13)

15. Ring given to get married, not yet paid for (4)

17. Small bird making its home round top of larch (8)

19. Tripped over own feet and must somehow have lost blood (8)

21. Official wear is a bore to make (4)

22. Courage needed, being small and stony (4)

23. In the street, a tiny dessert (5)

DOWN

1. Language used by Riding School (7)

2. Don’t start to work to make things run smoothly (3)

3. It makes marine mammals watertight (5)

4. Seeing that it is concerning something that’s meant (7)

5. Routine one gets stuck in (3)

6. One won’t get over such a blow (5) 26/9

10. Is weary of being dressed in an old-fashioned way (5)

11. It is about right to replenish a furbelow (5)

13. Lights taking carbon and the French sulphur (7)

14. Ben and Noel might make one a lord (7)

16. Sort of colour suited for a seascape perhaps (5)

18. Move cringingly when left in the team (5)

20. Kneeler has a dull-sounding surface (3)

21. Rubbish it’s right to turn up (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Indefensible 8. Overture 9. Snap 11. Tryst

12. Corsair 13. Each 15. Seem 19. Partita 20. Cuban 22. Neap

23. Panorama 24. Renunciation

Down: 2. Needy 3. Entity 4. Enrich 5. Bandage 6. Experimental

7. Bottle-opener 10. Try 14. Curtain 16. Pit 17. Malawi

18. Accost 21. Beano