Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Rock where one seaman returns with another (6) 4. Cruel type said to be reformed by a good man (6)
9. One doing time is destined to be subjected to the rack! (2,3,1,7)
10. He works to put Sinatra in variety (7)
11. It’s awkward if the enclosure is put back in it (5)
12. The man who has a whip-round is a fraud (5)
14. The Spanish included in the beam broadcast (5)
18. Make a distribution when a levy is returned (5)
19. Start firing again (7)
21. A method of improving poor orators! (6,7)
22. Having been wrongly directed, I’m returning by toboggan (6)
23. Not a single person experiences this kind of bliss (6)
DOWN
1. But this train is not the Honeymoon Express! (6) 2. They are assumed to provide top security (6,7) 3. What the enchantress does to break the rules (5) 5. Broadcasting cable required for flying company (7) 6. Where you’ll find the front men actively engaged (2,3,8) 7. Pacific location – it is upset about a strike (6) 8. Not wasting some of the surplus ingredients (5)
13. A thing that ruins the recital (7)
15. Coach with an attractive appearance, we hear (6)
16. Young rascals start a rumpus in the clubs (5)
17. Kept going, but remained in the same place (6)
20. Feudal lord in Belgium (5)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS
Across: 1 Wheelwrights; 7 Tapes; 8 Style; 9 Ion; 10 Conductor; 11 Goes up; 12 Discus; 15 Lightning; 17 Ire; 18 Sloth; 19 Tubes; 21 Intelligence.
Down: 1 Working class; 2 Lap; 3 Rising; 4 Gesturing; 5 Tryst; 6 Heart’s desire; 7 Tense; 10 Court shoe; 13 Cries; 14 Pistol; 16 Groan; 20 Bag.