CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A wooden one to be found in gym or in Troy (5)

4. Noah’s wrong about an expression of praise to God (7)

8. There’s not much room to move when one’s tipsy (5)

9. A flaming basket spills secrets (7)

10. No longer in the game, being away from home (3)

11. Last letter repeated by me: rebel turned out to be a thief (9)

12. A singular pair of trousers to make one short of breath (4)

13. Pale and out of sorts, but possibly not guilty (4)

18. Being beneath getting in crooked deal, perhaps gets cleaned (9)

20. May be nauseated if at this part of it (3)

21. Stoppage that may make me grab nothing (7)

22. Girl that is about to behead architect (5)

23. Walks, at length, in trousers (7)

24. It takes courage to go round south when they are blowing (5)

DOWN

1. Revivalist preachers having short slop-out with glee (3,10) 2/10

2. The ring could be used to make amends (7)

3. High regard, see, met with in such a fashion (6)

4. Male going to Castro’s country to find Priam’s wife (6)

5. With cold trouble it may bring one to blows (6)

6. The North, alas, could be nosy (5)

7. Men of the theatre who cope right among the Thespians (5,8)

14. Gives ear, its lens being broken (7)

15. Fuss a Revolutionary loved (6)

16. Puts up with the streams (6)

17. Going on to say one is following the plus signs (6)

19. Pigment that has removed top of figure (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Magnanimity 8. Tenon 9. Lissome 10. Lies low

11. Lodge 12. Titles 14. Bridge 18. Cramp 19. Eyewash

21. Lessons 23. Rumba 24. Antirrhinum

Down: 1. Matelot 2. Gun-belt 3. Annul 4. In-laws 5. Insular

6. Yeo 7. Where 13. Exploit 15. Dead-men 16. Ephraim

17. Geyser 18. Colts 20. Earth 22. Spa