Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1. 4. Be To waddle reveal in no around hurry hesitation and (6) spells downfall (6) 9. Telephone for legal aid? (4,3,6) 10. It’s obvious I’d enter the contest (7) 11. Put oil on an eel that has been prepared (5) 12. A trap set outside a second time (5) 14. New lamps put into service (5) 18. Game many take to (5) 19. One illness after another (7) 21. A tree leaning over a ramp, perhaps (8,5) 22. Stop in a crooked side street (6) 23. Fresh petals set out on the table (6)

DOWN

1. 2. 3. 5. 6. Clipped They Turner Not It’s perhaps houses thick-skinned, the support common writes at (7) sort (7,6) the of quayside articles the waterpipes in game, most (5) (6) 7. 8. Staggered, He’s colourless (5,8) in line around (6) and but at unwanted the got 13. preliminary Examples subtle type of of races the humour more (5) 15. that Fighting is found together in clubs and (7) all about to die (6) 16. There may be a catch in it (5) 17. People mending pipes? (6) 20. Part of a jacket to copy in a fifty-fifty arrangement (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS

Across: 1 Candlesticks; 7 Ember; 8 Plain; 9 Tug; 10 Leastwise; 11 Garage; 12 Relief; 15 Treatment; 17 Air; 18 Earth; 19 Outre; 21 Prophet of woe. Down: 1 Come together; 2 Lob; 3 Stream; 4 Impatient; 5 Khaki; 6 Interference; 7 Eager; 10 Lightship; 13 Inane; 14 Become; 16 Error; 20 Too.