YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 7. Cross-sections 8. Maintenance 12. Embers 14. Salted

16. Vetted 18. Floats 19. Drawbridges 23. Curtain-raiser

Down: 1. Drum 2. Asti 3. As it is 4. Scones 5. Sign 6. Once 9. Arbiter

10. Cottage 11. Odds 12. Envy 13. Rye 15. All 17. Debris 18. Friary

19. Drug 20. Alto 21. Grim 22. Slew