CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

4 Didn’t lack a place to land the fish (7) 8 Listen somehow to the recruiting officer’s plea? (6) 9 Made a pretence a reality? (7)

10 Go-ahead newspaper article? (6)

11 Spares could be few and far between (6)

12 Almost a hit with the girl next door (4,4)

18 Belief about men

in the building (8) 20 This clue should

be adequate! (6) 21 I’m given a role to

communicate (6) 22 They tell how actions were done (7)

23 Descriptive of a man who can’t settle (6)

24 Soften sausage

mash (7)

DOWN

1 Drop off or refuse to do so (7) 2 It’s dated even before use (7) 3 The respect in which going up meets the point (6) 5 Two fools in murderous combination (8) 6 Number of towns in S.Africa (6) 7 A mark of credit and comfort (6) 13 Sacked, no doubt!

(2,3,3)

14 Indeed was at

length held up (7) 15 No unwritten

law (7)

16 A poem has a point of positive significance (6) 17 Foreign office

desk? (6)

19 Something valuable from copper mines (6)