Paper.. The BIG Saturday Crossword

Cryptic clues

Across

1. The price of nursery furniture round the south (4) 3. Those at the front providing security for freight transport? (8) 8. A knotty point is

swelling (4) 9. Revel and festive song going all round America (8) 11. After the shots, they’ve been blown up (12) 13. Spring vegetable (6) 14. Distant meteor undergoing metamorphosis (6) 17. Dishonest

packmen? (12) 20. Boredom’s dissipated by places of retirement (8) 21. Capital invested in

Pimlico (S London) (4) 22. Taking industrial

action is attractive (8) 23. Don’t stay at the back

of mountain road (4)

Down

1. Talk with others

opposite (8) 2. Manufacturer of back

seats (7) 4. Present-day sage translated aphorisms (6) 5. Fruit for the bird to put in the ground, we hear (10) 6. Like fixed item of

property (5) 7. Boy turned up near

eastern valley (4) 10. Land to cultivate - that will provide the basis (10) 12. They finance the old

guest houses (8) 15. Sounds like the bishop’s position abroad (7) 16. Pretend to be a north

Asiatic priest (6) 18. Reptile producing

unreasoning dread (5) 19. Is holding half the bill for greatly respected winger (4)

Down

1. Affair (8) 2. Circulation (7) 4. Brawl (6) 5. Display (10) 6. Offspring (5) 7. Whirlpool (4) 10. Overpriced (10) 12. Graveyard (8) 15. Uniform (7) 16. Elder (6) 18. Hurry (5) 19. Ban (4)