CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 7. Does he figure on getting to work? (13) 8. How could German lip be split if so resistant to attack! (11) 12. Depart in disorder, no longer being together (6) 14. Part of tea service with meat accompaniment right at the end (6) 16. What angler needs to bring down on the field (6) 18. Drive one to poverty in order to lose weight (6) 19. Met one half-way and got exposed to suspicion of scandal (11) 23. They help one's progress when perambulation gets tacky (7,6)

▶ Down 1. Gift-bearers turned up in a big amphitheatre (4) 2. Smaller store of posh potential (4) 3. Will threaten one politician with death (6) 4. Accommodation for match attendants is still operative (6) 5. Last of workers to take taxi to work when others are out (4) 6. Water colour, carmine (4) 9. Fine leather to the South of the Med (7) 10. Some old reading for a professor's discourse (7) 11. Being loyal, make accurate adjustment (4) 12. The way one conducting post mortem begins (4) 13. It slithers up the sheltered side (3) 15. We have a start with such a feeling of dread (3) 17. Wandering like an old knight, will storm after some hesitation (6) 18. No end of a revolutionary spinster being so negligent (6) 19. One layer of paint for Ulster maybe (4) 20. To be profitable, go in for manufacture (4) 21.Behave like top to produce a thread (4) 22. Hand clenched by nobleman? (4)

▶ Yesterday's solution Across 1. Photography 7. Massage 9. Inch 11. Stand 12. Method 14. Centralised 18. Mentor 20. Notch 22. Rare 23. Endures 24. Remorseless Down 2. Hastate 3. Glee 4. Hunch 5. Amuse 6. Shady 8. Audition 10. Designed 13. Bar 15. Extorts 16. Smart 17. Chess 19. Norse 21. Bees