Paper.. The BIG Saturday Crossword

Cryptic clues

Across

7. Normal practice for an

upper-class scholar (5) 8. They are used for

making red hats (7) 9. Scholastic qualification not quite enough for the statesman (7) 10. Provide a crew and leave to get the tropical fruit (5) 12. Go by air to

escape (4,6) 15A & 14D. Don’t go into the vaults blindfold (4,6,3,4) 18. Accounts for what is

drunk in backstreet (5) 19. Now used, initially, with plain kind of energy (7) 21. Completely exhausted, going at top speed (4,3) 22. It’s used for firing the

stove (5)

Down

1. A child of four (10) 2. Openings round the top of many umbrellas (5) 3. Nothing found in

Belsize Road (4) 4. To launch an attack

faster, maybe (6) 5. Quaker (8) 6. Feel concern about

horse slaughter (7) 11. Needing to be disciplined - removed from the fraternity (3,2,5) 13. Bosses at some divergence in providing fibrous material (8) 14. See 15 Across 16. Though subject to limitations, it is in splendid setting (6) 17. Deceptive movement not easily discerned, one hears (5) 20. Parish priest to achieve an act of healing (4)

Down

1. Policemen (10) 2. Acknowledge (5) 3. Clasp (4) 4. Listener (6) 5. Orations (8) 6. Waterfall (7) 11. Criminal (3-7) 13. Changeable (8) 14. Infested (7) 16. Temperament (6) 17. Rebuke (5) 20. Skilled (4)