CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. Make a lofting stroke at geese flying in formation (5)

5. South Africa and the Middle East are identical (4)

7. Is mad to come back and put the knife in (4)

8. They aren’t paid to use a tram for them (8)

9. Meeting the federal legislature (8)

11. Wan beyond which it’s unacceptable to be (4)

12. Am bad as sailor of His Excellency’s (13)

15. Degas didn’t finish when upset and elderly (4)

17. Does away with dye and sorts it out (8)

19. The coast road, once rich in its sinuosity (8)

21. Reserve the libretto (4)

22. Organist won’t cease to pull it out, though (4)

23. Crazed party abstainer attends at end of May (5)

DOWN

1. Destructive caterpillar or two in a dog starting to moult (7)

2. You and I start building a silken trap (3)

3. A Viking ship of war for an Elizabethan admiral (5)

4. Pleased to have broken up as time went by (7)

5. The woman who will lose weight endlessly (3)

6. It is ethically right for me to lose half on the viva voce (5)

10. The piano rang out with opening of ‘Dutchman’ (5)

11. It is more refined to have back-up and err about it (5)

13. Led astray by the South, deduce the outcome (7)

14. Whatever person gets by on day of turmoil (7)

16. Nanny is about right in old money (5)

18. Dessert set we put out (5)

20. Go so fast, one may feel the pinch (3)

21. Sound like a hound in the window recess (3)

MONDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

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MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Taciturn 7. Evade 8. Long-lived 9. Top 10. Spun 11. Elects

13. Surreptitious 15. Seldom 16. Spur 18. Act 20. Universal 21. Crass

22. Depended

Down: 1. Tilts 2. Conquer 3. Talk 4. Revolutionise 5. Casts 6. Keepers

7. Educate 12. Jealous 13. Scratch 14. Opposed 15. Steal 17. Ruled

19. Fete

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS