CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. Organ transplant results in different way of thinking (6,2,5)

8. Having cheek in a business area, it has holding powers (11)

12. It may make things run smoothly if one agrees to differ (6)

14. Officer getting last couple of batmen to put their name to it (6)

16. Celsius, term one uses for a system of measurement (6)

18. Have nothing to do with trash (6)

19. Sordid peeps perhaps allowing one to think well of it ahead (11)

23. What angler wants for stalking (chief requirement) (7,6)

DOWN

1. Tell the authorities where purchase may be made (4)

2. An expert unit right at the foot of it (4)

3. It may corrupt one to march off in line (6)

4. Elf loses heart, and dial will wipe it out (6)

5. Half a prefix may be wholly occupied (4)

6. Get ragged at the edges in a brawl (4)

9. Drop the pilot – using this seat? (7)

10. Payment exacted for the nice things one says about a person (7)

11. King born a woman bent it in servility (4)

12. Willing to hang it, if one likes it high (4)

13. What’s afoot in slalom starts slipping keep inside (3)

15. Scottish refusal to nominate Monsieur – he’s gone (3)

17. He takes professional service for a coin when about fifty-one (6)

18. What’s said of Peter it may be universal to include (6)

19. Brace quietly placed on a piece of music (4)

20. It may give one one’s voice back (4)

21. What one is given in dismissal may be pillage (4)

22. Hand-out with which to cheat the French (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Window panes 7. Samovar 9. Pure 11. Ranks

12. Covers 14. Destructive 18. Afford 20. Goose 22. Chip

23. Sallies 24. Standardise

Down: 2. Immense 3. Wire 4. Exude S. Tsars 6. Beast 8. Visitors

10. Portugal 13. Bug 15. Violins 16. Hatch 17. Least 19. Feint

21. Asia