CROSSWORD

Across 1 Light repair is not free (3,2,4)

8 Paint turns out to be unsuitable (5)

9 Insect settled on the cheese for a short while (7)

10 Quiet little brook anything but quiet (6)

11 Ring again to cancel (6) 12 Rejected just for being unqualified (8)

15 Put out, away and finished (8)

18 Oils go into northern dwellings (6)

20 They hold an alternative view of things (6) 21 Priests get organised and keep trying (7) 22 In fertilisation it reinforces saltpetre (5)

23 Song about a watershed? (3,6) Down 2 Strange oriental lake (5)

3 Cook may use a tin one (6) 4 Maximum charge for conveyance (4,4) 5 One of two, or one in three perhaps (6) 6 Proceeds in an intriguing direction (7) 7 Scattered his cattle on the track, perhaps (9) 11 It’s horrible fighting against the government (9) 13 Order I dissent from, possibly (8) 14 Theatrical property? (7)

16 Gives patient attention (6)

17 It’s in our blood (6) 19 Determined to follow on an attack (5)