CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. Feel deeply the threat to Kate I organised (4,2,2,5)

8. Where medication is concerned, here’s the rub (11)

12. Give me gin around start of lunch and be a mixer (6)

14. It could come near to being over-elaborate (6)

16. Leg, due to break, may overwhelm one (6)

18. Dress to treat one to (6)

19. The damage no gin is causing, blending in (11)

23. Coats for Capuchins? (6-7)

DOWN

1. Ornamental material for a boot-tie (4)

2. In short, a boy may go to pot (4)

3. The oarsman gives one a line in writing (6)

4. Work given up, thanks to King Edward (6)

5. Beautiful fairy is prefixed around (4)

6. Ring tail-ender first, with a broad smile (4)

9. Am in all of a muddle with this paper (7)

10. There’s nothing to VAT, taking one on popular reception (7)

11. Give way to some precedent (4)

12. Fashion, if added to rate, is reasonable (4)

13. Be behind an old prisoner (3)

14/9

15. Rubbish on television starts the decay (3)

17. His name is the book title, or poem written out about New York (6)

18. Creature as farmed by George Orwell (6)

19. Winnie the overturned ring of wood (4)

20. Will be inclined to be a libertine (4)

21. Top of little finger being lost, it becomes black (4)

22. It is posted at the entrance (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Demonstrate 7. Parable 9. Wink 11. Rhino

12. Mortal 14. Prohibition 18. Endure 20. Augur 22. Site

23. Lattice 24. Countersign

Down: 2. Earlier 3. Shed 4. Twist 5. Sport 6. Skill 8. Brothers

10. Contrast 13. Ebb 15. Ongoing 16. Feast 17. Grief 19. Ditto

21. Glee