CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. This green pigment is capital (5)

4. What pig stands on, seeing cad following tour-leader? (7)

8. Make something up or say finally it shows what’s in estate (9)

9. Something boring that sounds complete (3)

10. ‘But four young ____ hurried up All eager for the treat’ (Carroll) (7)

12. Are past (4)

14. Pc cites riot, though he’s dubious (7)

17. Chevelure giving tune the aspiration to begin (4)

18. Tasting of almonds produced from it afar, a change being made (7)

20. A trophy to drink from? (3)

21. Say more than anyone else, to the very extreme (9)

23. Much yet to be returned about right to provide game of chance (7)

24. Discourage time among the bucks (5)

DOWN

1. Hop is hop: I call around, taking things as they come (13)

2. It’s foolhardy to hold six that will enrapture one (6)

3. ‘Two years’ perhaps something made up of words (8)

4. So handed one may be ambidextrous (3)

5. Any loss of capital will, in a beast, be made into cameo (4)

6. Extra velocity needed to show how might shift (6)

7. Wave to an inshore vessel, one that has its ups and downs (6-7)

11. Very delightful police officer, in short (5)

13. Got borne in carrying-bed but made a mess with the paper (8)

15. A strip of fur may produce a wrinkle with the favourite (6)

16. An attempt at being left leaderless for getting involved (6)

19. A decoy may be responsible for misrule (4)

22. Being conservative right out gives one something to play with (3)