CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Take all the cards off the table and start from scratch (5,3,4) 7. The caper of the worker in charge (5) 8. A cheese dip for the bent leg at ballet (5) 9. Old writer’s equipment was found back in the rubbish receptacle (3) 10. End soccer game with a rising cheer (9) 11. The person back on the mat with the gin concoction needs bringing into line (6) 12. Didn’t hit the ball properly and never made final golf rounds, we hear (6) 15. Eat carobs, perhaps, for salt of vitamin C (9) 17. A French street to regret (3) 18. He had no wait for the limewater ... (5) 19. … when with the girl from the Berlin dance hall (5) 21. The number of letters that came from the past (5,7)

Down

1. The prime minister was a furniture manufacturer (12) 2. Restored a piece of decay returning (3) 3. Cut a path and rode the horse through (6) 4. Unusual device to catch eft was not working properly (9) 5. Reportedly is a big gun in the church (5) 6. Was it basic stuff being manager of the flour factory? (3,2,3,4) 7. Where you may keep an old item of correspondence (5) 10. Places to keep ashes and flowers (9) 13. Corsican had no son around this time (5) 14. Line up to take the plunge (4,2) 16. Small part as oneself came to nothing (5) 20. Steal a game with matchsticks (3)