CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

7/1

ACROSS

1. Where to unload what is halved and far removed from it (5)

4. They write of crises which could be about to begin (7)

8. Not made, in the confusion, to have had name put up (9)

9. Time for fighting when anarchists remove leaders (3)

10. Testing and decisive way low dog turns to one in state (7)

12. Sound reproduction, if in no end of a hit (2-2)

14. Treatment they are about to knock (7)

17. Range oneself alongside everybody at the end of the day (4)

18. Under a bishop ice does tend to get broken (7)

20. Follow footsteps of one standing in the grate (3)

21. Left folded sheet of paper to represent artist’s work (9)

23. Weary after ride I’d dropped out and gone to bed (7)

24. How far one can go beyond fifty-one: almost time to go back (5)

DOWN

1. Has drawn me coming into being as an officer (4-9)

2. Plating protects one, or a rum turn-out it might be (6)

3. Glass over the door may fail, night being upset without one (8)

4. Part of a match may be all that’s to be collected (3)

5. Go in carriage and get shot of expedition leader (4)

6. Moan as we are turned over in what bowler wishes to dislodge (6)

7. It may resolve one’s problems to unbend when away from home (10,3)

11. Offered enticement with half luck, and looks embarrassed (5)

13. Cook measures it for soup: no fluid, in short (8)

15. Passage by air from top of the stairs to the bottom (6)

16. On which was written part of novel luminary produced (6)

19. Fight with spurs for a bit of wood on board (4)

22. Measuring-stick for a pistol in America (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 2. Cigar 5. Cash 7. Drop 8. Eviction 9. Dissents 11. Able

12. Characterised 15. Fang 17. Coldness 19. Compiled 21. Bags

22. Wean 23. Sings

Down: 1. Tarnish 2. Cup 3. Green 4. Reissue 5. Cat 6. Shoal

10. Scrag 11. Asian 13. Cockles 14. Ensigns 16. Above 18. Laden

20. Pun 21. Bus