THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1309

An Ettinger shoe horn and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 9 May. Email the answers as a scan of a completed grid or a list, with the subject line The Week crossword 1309, to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (timmoorey.com)

ACROSS

7 Sort of home phone (6) 8 Relation abroad? Son perhaps from South Korea (8) 9 What’s parched in the Kalahari desert? (4) 10 Greek agreed to take a rest mostly outside (10) 11 Noble dressed in cashmere (8) 13 Provider of drink with strings attached? (3,3) 14 Magazine late? Frequently (4,5,4) 17 Nothing hidden from view of bird’s wing (6) 19 Day in French city after one in forest region (8) 21 Pin courses up in the kitchen (10) 22 Pass over captain for bowling (4) 23 Illness in county is distressing (8) 24 In which you could mix hot sake recipe initially (6)

DOWN

1 Mashed potatos about right for this meal (3,5) 2 Rear a deer, a female deer (4) 3 Soldiers don’t get any younger in this household (6) 4 Politician’s car back with tail part missing (8) 5 Joy’s under hospital in northern showing breathing problems (10) 6 Best-loved large area of shanty town (6) 8 Chair protests about lowest level position of the Duke of York? (9,4) 12 Kitchen apprentice sounding Marxist (6,4) 15 One refuses to acknowledge acting so badly (8) 16 Make-up fancifully in vessel used by Apple? (8) 18 Drink in pleasant meal without a starter (3,3) 20 Like Hamlet returning home in a hurry (6) 22 Criticise religion beginning to be forgotten (4)

Clue of the week: Destroy egg sandwiches near bananas (10, first letters INC) The Independent, Tees