CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Story that’s about Elba loudly returned (5)

4. I’d upset the domestic servants on the female side (7)

8. Hoax girl, creep about with one compiling a dictionary (13)

10. Got up with the first six floribundas (5)

11. Lent, it might be, at speed (4)

12. Small weight was non-u at one time (4)

16. The way one goes to make nothing true (5)

17. An artist who gave an impersonation of what he saw (13)

19. Works out-of-doors on making the beds (7)

20. Sort of prophet who was a younger brother at school (5)

DOWN

1. Don, being made aware of sympathy (6-7)

2. A container to fight for (3)

3. Repeat item that’s once re-assembled (6)

4. One should be able to stomach the résumé (6)

5. There’s not much to be had in various Parsee dishes (6)

6. The followers here stand about (9)

7. One wanting to marry who’s on the treasure trail (7-6) 28/9

9. Pet ill that may go to the wall (9)

13. I verge on breakdown when I mourn (6)

14. Cruises around without one and uses foul language (6)

15. It may be right for me to bring myself to a better way of life (6)

18. Something charged for taking one on (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Lucre 4. Desired 8. Toothless 9. Gnu 10. Likened

12. Bill 14. Deserts 17. Yoke 18. Martini 20. Lot 21. Dissident

23. Exhumed 24. Grand

Down: 1. Little Boy Blue 2. Crooks 3. Enhanced 4. Dye

5. So-so 6. Regain 7. Double-jointed 11. Dream 13. Starling

15. Sketch 16. Cinema 19. Adam 22. Sad