BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2400

ACROSS

01. Memorial statue, etc (8)

07. Bend (5) 8. Stonecutting (7)

09. Bunched together (7)

10. Hard, black wood (4)

12. Made bare (7)

14. Affectation of shyness (7)

17. Nought (4)

18. Eatingplace (7)

21. Allowed (7)

22. Bound (5)

23. Bluepencilled (8)

ACROSS DOWN DOWN

01. Scoffed (6)

02. By a small margin (8)

03. Chief (4)

04. Kept on criticising (6)

05. Harvest (4)

06. Removed unwanted plants (6)

07. Was hit on top of head (7)

11. Stop happening (7)

13. Filmmaker (8)

14. Shellfish (6)

15. Unmarried (6)

16. Squalid, dirty (6)

19. Title (4)

20. Singer (4)

ACROSS

01. Memorial to miners' union curtailed in a trice (8)

07. Effect a remedy around five, but don't go straight (5)

08. Dealing with the Sunday joint is a sculptor's work (7)

09. Felt blindly around forbidden turn and put things together (7)

10. It's black to the poet, being drawn from the bonfire (4)

12. Donkeycoloured, is given back indeed and deprived of covering (7)

14. Affected modesty with company? Yes, and both Poles somehow (7)

17. Final letter returned mineral aggregate: there's nothing to it (4)

18. Set of knives, forks and spoons, and place to eat at work (7)

21. Given that half the team is involved in magnificent setting (7)

22. Impose bounds on our first motorway in being illuminated (5)

23. Was correspondingly removed? (8)

SOLUTION: BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2399 DOWN

01. Being the object of scorn in a simple dress, but topless (6)

02. Dart reaching end of tunnel in New York, just (8)

03. Mother isn't out, Chief! (4)

04. Horse pike kept on at (6)

05. What rider may have in hand is a season's yield (4)

06. Docked the opposite in the garden? (6)

07. Tooth has come in for some repair, like reigning monarch (7)

11. Don't allow it to veer about in pint one has left (7)

13. One on board will go straight to the gold (8)

14. Crumple the shellfish (6)

15. One run not spliced (6)

16. Disordered disorder, without hesitation: it's squalid! (6)

19. One s calling might mean alteration (4)

20. Fish top of brook with a fool (4)

7. Picture frames 8. Spreadeagle 12. Perish 14. Sponge 16. Canvas 18. Female 19. Applepie bed 23. Adventuresome

1. Kiss 2. Star 3. Breath 4. Offers 5. Bang 6. Cede 9. Parsnip 10. Lineage 11. Fete 12. Pick 13. Spa 15. Pie 17. Sheets 18. Friary 19. Adds 20. Peer 21. Boss 22. Dump