CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

2 & 5ac. Hide all the old cars! Let them drop! (5,4)

7. I could get a kiss and be in for an antelope (4)

8. For container, tin is right with the return of the alien (8)

9. Grass you may find at the canine’s back end (4-4)

11. Bang. Jump bail and get out of jail (4)

12. A technological improvement on the carpenter’s tool was above normal (8,5)

15. Morning is all right to be in a frenzy to kill (4)

17. Marty Jo & I make up the bulk of the meeting (8)

19. Memoir up about the variety store (8)

21. Put interior cladding in a row (4)

22 & 23ac. Handsomeness gets the once over (4,5)

Down

1. Down the tube, huntaway is like a duck (3-4)

2. A carton of hedge? (3)

3. I object to 200 getting a place of worship (5)

4. Picked without Glen’s ID perhaps (7)

5. Messages are returned with a mule (3)

6. A light across the middle of the ship (5)

10. The fire starter from the Southern gardens (5)

11. Yogi eats the Labour leader in a blur (5)

13. Climb with the sailor - it’s all to do with tree rings (7)

14. Former wife nurses and makes lives longer (7)

16 & 18dn. The result of mother, Ms. Derek and an elephant trying to talk to each other (5,5) 20. Strange. Overdose on 500 (3) 21. The boy came back with a Chinese lantern (3)

Yesterday

Across: 1. Longbow, 5. Cloud, 8. Corgi, 9. Thulium, 10. Thunderstorms, 11. Seesaw, 12. Snooze, 15. Meals on wheels, 18. Execute, 19. Under, 20. Scarf,

21. Tie-dyed.

Down: 1. Licit, 2. Nurture, 3. Blindman’s buff, 4. Watery, 5. Counting house,

6. Osier, 7. Demesne, 11. Summers, 13. Open day, 14. Inject, 16. Arena, 17. Shred.