CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Modern container that can be made to go by elephant! (9,3) 7 Mother can’t lose at chess (5) 8 It is in the tax (5) 9 It goes on ahead, we hear (3) 10 Mixed up racialist indulging in invective against society (9) 11 Always brave? Not likely! (2,4) 12 Seems a lot of money for some cigarettes! (6) 15 Vagrant Noel returned to show contempt for (7,2) 17 She comes back without any change (3) 18 Backwaters vessel (5) 19 Hang around for a caroller? (5) 21 Having made good progress, what a desert traveller would like to find? (4,2,3,3)

DOWN

1 Sort of gambling common on board ship (5,3,4) 2 A little addition (3) 3 All the wrong impressions? (6) 4 Do someone a good turn, perhaps (9) 5 Superior room for an Athenian (5) 6 An important date for a Russian landlord? (3,6,3) 7 The subject returns healthy to the doctor (5) 10 The best astronomy student? (4,5) 13 Got down to making a proposal? (5) 14 Delay by putting the date in wrongly (6) 16 By itself something which attracts interest, we hear (5) 20 His name’s somewhat alien (3)