CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Medicinal herbs? I’m taking dope! (6,5)

7 One who can make an impression? (7)

8 Naked truth, primarily, about working title (7)

10 Clean adapted weapon (5)

11 Tries his cooking before wife

produces casserole (5,4)

12 Bloodsucker’s anger connected with seductress (7)

14 Portion brought back for each voyageur (7)

15 Put out again about children (7) 18 Trip out entertaining revolutionary baseball player (7)

20 Beneath which there may be plonkers? (9)

21 Cut up rough, at first, in outhouse (5)

22 Disregard gentle fooling around involving Conservative (7)

23 A bishop, unaccompanied, gets seafood (7)

24 Precisely how rent is paid? (2,3,6)

DOWN

1 Another word for terribly nosy New York male (7)

2 Cereal crop I planted in jungle (5)

3 Room inside the Parisian grill (7)

4 Son is bust, forced to eke out an existence (7)

5 Parade one month ago (5,4)

6 Initially, navvies on street work without a break (3-4)

7 Courier called up about chauffeur’s uniform? (11)

9 Wrote about game, a fixture between two Thames boroughs (5,6)

13 Rude about head of venture strapped for cash (9)

16 Visible from fashionable location, reportedly (2,5)

17 Held up by belt, it, netsuke, shows style (7)

18 Agent dividing cut in study (7)

19 Nurse in shelter (7) 21 Celebrity, tense, to begin an argument? (5)

Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved