Kropotkin 1050

Across

1. Finally understood T H White? Slag off ! (3,3,5)

7. Gets prepared to have cash on hand (7)

8. This dictionary defines pounds in term of shillings and pence (7)

10. What number is used in Computer-Aided Design? 51? You’re getting warm (5)

11. Someone pretending to hold gold in The Outsider (9)

12. A stroke – deceased – then sliced up! (4,3)

14. He will sell you something to consume before start of meal in one of the British Isles (7)

15. Stumped by a fielder initially – left in a hurry (7)

18. Supports sign of failed scrum? (5,2)

20. Pond-dwellers need earth, and legs to go on (9)

21. Some muscles needed in erecting new houses (5)

22. Withstands half of this in breaks? (7)

23. Mesh for locks (7)

24. Parts of pool table in which teams going about take for themselves (4,7)

Down

1. O’Hara lost footing, became sexually immoral (7)

2. Ride all over the place after whiskey, rum (5)

3. Fiat has crashed – blows up (3,1,3)

4. Coarse linen cloth needed to make traditional rugby jumper? Wool grower needed! (7)

5. After display of effrontery Ngaio punished birds in this (9)

6. “Old New York” in neat name consisting of three terms (7)

7. This crustacean caught in swirling brooklets and river (4,7)

9. Snorting pot (a misuse of it!) should be something you’re good at (6,5)

13. Pass expired – one did this before expiry (9)

16. ‘Fosters’ drunk in Waipoua and Kaingaroa? (7)

17. Stops talking about du Pre – is crippled (5,2)

18. “Following a white wine, Kelvin leaves” – that’s a logical fallacy? (4,3)

19. More food ready in this if already heated (7)

21. Rear Admiral’s head is found in the centre of Waikaremoana (5)