CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Discussing your work in Parliament? (7,4) 9 Take out a former pamphlet (7) 10 Near a rebuilt stadium (5) 11 Boredom caused by some drunken nuisances (5) 12 Favour otters swimming to a point (7) 13 On one hand there’s a myth about beat (6) 15 Mistake over students (4-2) 18 Retires from making vessels in metal (5,2) 20 Cots I rebuild, indifferent to pain and pleasure (5) 22 Or something charged for stars (5) 23 Write something deep? (7) 24 Prudish about cattle raids (6-5) DOWN 2 Like the weight of an area of Birmingham (5) 3 Like Jack? (7) 4 Essential character of a man on the river (6) 5 Remains in corsets (5) 6 A stage dance? (3-4) 7 Not a considerate profane act (11) 8 Earned a lot of money and built a boat (4,1,6) 14 Say you’re given a smacker by one with a white rose (7) 16 Gas Alan uses to cook a pasta dish (7) 17 Creature from a fashionable group (6) 19 A girl’s returning a plant (5) 21 Possibly are to speak (5)