Paper.. The BIG Saturday Crossword

Cryptic clues

Across

1. Top churchman is at home with really bad vice! (8,3) 9. Repels a recurrence

of illness (7) 10. Scene of the spinster’s last walk? (5) 11. Street not a meeting

place (5) 12. Put on the level, yet

not true (4,3) 13. Swear about nothing during series of training sessions (6) 15. One who makes reductions in small boat (6) 18. Bestial garden plant?

(7) 20. State preference (5) 22. Enter Gateshead on

the way out (5) 23. The French horse attendant needs space to move (7) 24. Hold a trifle for a

dictator (5,6)

Down

2. Exhausted with no

holds barred (3,2) 3. Down the spirits (7) 4. Initially not everybody eats dinner every day when required (6) 5. Permission to go

away (5) 6. Is north, briefly (2,5) 7. Serious accusation resulting from burial fee? (5,6) 8. Conditions put on gambler result in improved relations (6,5) 14. Not courted? (7) 16. Nervously tense, out

of bed, and drunk (7) 17. Riches acquired by

breaking the law (6) 19. In putting up the flag elected to keep within the law (5) 21. Saint takes a single

pebble (5)

Down

2. Proportion (5) 3. Floors (7) 4. Production (6) 5. Reigned (5) 6. Hide (7) 7. Result (11) 8. Reliable (11) 14. Elucidate (7) 16. Forbear (7) 17. Emergency (6) 19. Flinch (5) 21. Jury (5)