CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. Vanishing from dance, a paper is written about it (13) 8. Was fully sensible of how it increased in value (11) 12. Fashioned as it was for me, in a river crossing (6) 14. How in a hen it may very quietly come to pass (6) 16. Attraction of everything certain not to have begun (6) 18. Bordeaux produces no end of treacle (6) 19. Close inspection of what a student sits (11) 23. Beginning quietly with Patna, this is what winning punter may get (8,5)

DOWN

1. Leading soprano will help one up if quintet is involved (4) 2. Academician and politician get together in this racket (4) 3. Become wider, and one may put it on one’s bread (6) 4. Possibly his half of the family is first to starve (6) 5. Don’t eat so quickly! (4) 6. A missile that will sweep along with the clouds (4) 9. It will confuse one with prep about the law in Latin (7) 10. Grass papermaker uses, or paste made from it (7) 11. One may tie it to a mark in the wood (4) 12. So doodle nonsense in a bit of a panic (4) 13. It listens to part of the argument (3) 15. Everything that remains unpaid is permitted (3) 17. To draw information from the East is legal (6) 18. Put juice in the battery, for a fee (6) 19. Grub provided in a café at sunset (4) 20. A sprightly tune at the end of a roundelay (4) 21. Japanese box that turned up in the morning (4) 22. A small cut may be made in prison (4)