Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

7. Vegetable you get when the chips are down? (6) 8. Pencil-case item used for deciding series of games (6) 9. Hits, then drinks water – a little (4) 10. Clear cab again for mountain transport (5-3) 11. Morality ban rewritten leading to irregularity (11) 14. Give nitrate, stir into salad dressing (11) 18. Nag Elvis about sinister controller (8) 19. Touched matted fabric (4) 20. Hire when nearly betrothed (6) 21. One who suspends noisy airport building (6)

DOWN

1. Cows ebb around where spiders are found (7) 2. Tense when taught orally (4) 3. Roman Company doesn’t finish film genre (6) 4. Try ball when hearing of ethnic group (6) 5. Been east moving to missing person (8) 6. Lane turns to five that are mercenary (5) 12. Relation moves from Asia? (8) 13. Ms McCartney sounds like a star! (7) 15. Gems, as found on gate (6) 16. Japanese hostess about his age (6) 17. First woman not sure, initially, of betting odds (5) 19. Excellent monetary penalty (4)

Solution in next month’s issue.