BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2409

ACROSS

01. Wretched dwelling (5)

04. By means of (7)

08. Dictionarymaker (13)

10. Thin silk net material (5)

11. Side (4)

12. Seaside feature (4)

16. Not sleeping (5)

17. Birdwatcher (13)

19. Weak and tottering (7)

20. One accepting bet (5)

ACROSS DOWN DOWN

01. Dugout portion of carriageway (4,2,3,4)

02. Irritate (3)

03. Find where it is (6)

04. Fastening (6)

05. Newspaper subscriber (6)

06. With sadness (9)

07. Port official (76)

09. Situated, as serving man (9)

13. Military engagement (6)

14. Takeoff (6)

15. Send one from the country (6)

18. Be tedious (3)

ACROSS

01. Poor home, built by spade without a top to it (5)

04. By means of the endlessly unpolished (7)

08. Man responsible for the book of words (13)

10. Material to be drawn from a bell, utterly reversed (5)

11. Get together with others to take a cuppa on November 5th (4)

12. Masonry support, one for each that gets around it (4)

16. A funeral party is not for the unconscious (5)

17. One to study flight might make lions right, too (13)

19. Curious direction in the noalcohol to be weak on the pins (7)

20. Want to bet? He'll accept that! (5)

SOLUTION: BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2408 DOWN

01. Where driving is concerned, space for repair? (4,2,3,4)

02. Sort of curve Con has left will annoy one (3)

03. Place officer back at teabreak (6)

04. Arose with a broken leg for the fastening (6)

05. One concerned with books will be one to put’ proof right (6)

06. Sad to say, any pupil can be upset with Hydrogen (9)

07. Bar breaks in an hour, stream changes, he looks for port dues (76)

09. Where service man is put, asserted to hold particle (9)

13. Engagement of Abel perhaps, with nondrinker in the centre (6)

14. Like a skit, it takes a perch to pay out (6)

15. Short rope duly given up, partly to banish one (6)

18. Its rarely known leaders will cause distress (3)

1. Sibyl 4. Palermo 8. Nostalgia 9. Mug 10. Article 12. Sign 14. Gunboat 17. Reel 18. Whitsun 20. Ion 21. Syncopate 23. Gallant 24. Dolls

1. Sunday morning 2. Besets 3. Loanclub 4. Peg 5. Leap 6. Remain 7. Organgrinders 11. Elbow 13. Manifold 15. Kernel 16. Assail 19. Asia 22. Net