Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 14769

1 Continuity by way of a male open ended

outside chance

6 Twist the end part of a book

7 Top of the morning to you on the back

of beyond the embankment

8 Hornets altered sovereigns’ chairs

11 Tours outside the back street we own

1 2 Some prefer to be the judge

1 3 Each rigid standard time

1 5 Leading church that is loud

1 6 Listen in on the French nose perhaps

1 8 Earth fastened with no seaside

DOWN

1 The small seed had great expectations?

2 Call a duck a Beatle

3 Poetic justice seems in bad order

4 Part of the nerve centre of a sound

up-to-date horse

5 At last you are a northern church with

staying power

6 The confounded racialist is disrespectful

9 Bully for the hooligan

1 0 Vital indispensable requisite

1 4 In short, outrun Keating’s torso

1 7 The young fellow left the commercial

STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS 1

Absence of change

6 Backbone

7 Heap

8 Royal seats

11 Belonging to us

1 2 Arbitrator (abb)

1 3 Oriental

1 5 Foremost

1 6 Cornet-like

instrument

1 8 Shut in

DOWN

1 Just beat in

a race

2 ... Starr, Beatle

3 Fate

4 Nerve cell

5 Stamina

6 Sarcastic

9 Hoodlum

1 0 Necessary

1 4 Chest

1 7 Boy