CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Cruel distribution of wealth (5)

4. Indeed, masculine address is wanted (7)

8. An edentate description of an old hag, no longer powerful (9)

9. There’s a fresh sound an animal makes (3)

10. It is compared with a similar donkey (7)

12. It is the beak that must be paid (4)

14. One gets one’s just barren tracts (7)

17. Yellow-sounding part of a dress (4)

18. The market, in one instance, for an aperitif (7)

20. A good deal fell upon Jonah (3)

21. It did make endless sense to one who disagreed (9)

23. Former partner and mud he possibly dug up (7)

24. Boudoir piano has an imposing look (5)

DOWN

1. Hornblower, when young, neglected his pastoral duty (6,3,4)

2. Gets bent? Such people already are (6)

3. He may get canned and thereby the effect is heightened (8)

4. Stain that will fade away, one is told (3) 27/9

5. It is thus repeatedly neither good nor bad (2-2)

6. Get back profit the Engineers made (6)

7. Lookalike to get together with Edward, able to bend easily (6-7)

11. A vision of what could be made right (5)

13. Bird to top the bill with fish (8)

15. Lightly draw a dramatic scene (6)

16. Came in and moved around the picture-house (6)

19. The first man to be an architectural brother (4)

22. Unhappy that the small advertisements are put out (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 2. Oasis 5. Raft 7. Tall 8. Annotate 9. Distaste 11. Fill

12. Characterised 15. Owed 17. Nestling 19. Stumbled

21. Robe 22. Grit 23. Sweet

Down: 1. Spanish 2. Oil 3. Seals 4. Sincere 5. Rut 6. Fatal

10. Tired 11. Frill 13. Candles 14. Ennoble 16. Water 18. Sidle

20. Mat 21. Rot