CRYPTICCROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Either leave the office or put your name to another contract (6) 4 Various plates required for this kind of diet (6) 9 So certain fuss will come from this peevish state (13) 10 Different signs I had put inside the shunting areas (7) 11 Line broken by a foreign body (5) 12 Being operated from the terminus efficiently (2,3) 14 Species of antelopes round the capital of Ethiopia (5) 18 Piper’s destination was a converted sewer (5) 19 Shows some resistance to work attitudes (7) 21 Expressing one’s ideas when cogitation is permitted, we hear (8,5) 22 Join up broken tinsel (6) 23 The girl gets an assortment of set papers (6)

DOWN

1 Don’t accept what has already been rejected (6) 2 Making no progress, but not having collapsed yet (8,5) 3 Make an entrance to be elected (3,2) 5 Describing one who has been willing to set up an Art Gallery (7) 6 One highly esteemed in the ring (8,5) 7 Mitigating the effect of wickedness in a troubled age (6) 8 Ask questions about one showing self-assurance (5) 13 More than one stoppage makes a violent impact (7) 15 Bandage what’s been damaged before the end of the battle (6) 16 To have property in backstreet built-up areas (5) 17 Oblique references to endlessly strange disease (6) 20 What those who steal eggs do when hungry? (5)

Friday’s solutions:

Across: 1 On sufferance. 7 Agent. 8 Adder. 9 Rue. 10 Matchless. 11 Pranks. 12 Stupor. 15 Rhapsodic. 17 Era. 18 Union. 19 Issue. 21 Intersection.

Down: 1 Obstreperous. 2 Fee. 3 Entity. 4 Apathetic. 5 Cadre. 6 Preservation. 7 Arena. 10 Make sense. 13 Piece. 14 Admits. 16 Alien. 20 Sec.