CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. Out-and-out Gringo? Oh, tough! (13)

8. Having possibility of producing oil, patently that’s wrong (11)

12. Alter one so as to sell it to the public (6)

14. With which to dig top of trench lower, perhaps (6)

16. Go overseas with first tune by French composer (6)

18. There may be no rest for such singers (6)

19. Go ahead people at top table get promotion (11)

23. Sacrifice a meal that’s been too long in the oven? (5,8)

DOWN

1. Inform on a 12 Across establishment (4)

2. The old woman was a follower of a world revolutionary (4)

3. Such vision as builders of Channel communication may have had (6)

4. It is economy an Alpine plant needs (6)

5. It takes a fencer’s sword to frustrate one’s plans (4)

6. Except that, this child has neither brother nor sister (4)

9. So bound to have an adventurous time away from home? (7)

10. The information is dishonourable (7)

11. Oh, dear: a girl has failed to finish (4)

12. Religious performance that sounds correct (4)

13. Put it on diamonds to hold it in abeyance (3)

15. They rarely hold up the whisky (3)

17. After a loss, loan taken by fellow is capital (6)

18. He is being held by posh person at start of race (3,3)

19. It is the fever that, in part, plagues one (4)

20. It shows which way the wind’s blowing, which sounds conceited (4)

21. The noble turned to by Lear (4)

22. Vat taken up in order to drink heavily (4)