Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES 14772

ACROSS

1 It drags one out to sea beneath the

digit I hear

7 Pull in the takings

8 Concerning an old king without

mixed ancestry

1 0 Breathe out – and about time!

11 Haphazard nomad disturbed right

at the start

1 3 Hasten to take a reading from what

measures velocity

1 6 Intent from a little deviation elsewhere

1 8 Early victim of fratricide labelled within

20 Wear down by friction, using

a bread mixer

2 1 Host a vast number

22 Perhaps she is the boss of

monkey business

DOWN

2 Disorderly Roman losing a model

3 They otherwise hide an islet

4 Somehow Tom shatters heat regulators

5 Therefore is beside the point wherefore

6 Lucky start with the same

children’s game

8 Put a stop to first class and rendered

less difficult

9 Their education includes the

Emerald Isle

1 2 It’s used in sculpturing a London Arch

1 4 A name taken from bad money quietly

1 5 This instrument sounds like a potato

1 7 Deserve each run-out

1 8 Act of bending a flexure

1 9 On the border of ledger entries