CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

4/11

ACROSS

1. Old things in a quest for change (8)

7. Card sounding like 5 (5)

8. In conversation is accepting about fifty (7)

9. Form of dieting that set one alight (7)

10. Becomes solid such as 6-4, 4-6 (4)

12. Letter tee formed with lips (7)

14. He gives one an address for part of the hi-fi (7)

17. Thus upon a time a fairy tale starts (4)

18. An entertainment 17 replacing a cart (7)

21. Tabletop scaffolding erector uses to set things in motion (7)

22. Sing the praises of entry in the next Olympics (5)

23. Deer pets persistently annoyed like this (8)

DOWN

1. One who paints shows a variety of traits (6)

2. It gives the game away to narrate the story (8)

3. Leave the East out of the silence (4)

4. Locomotive, for example, nine can produce (6)

5. Male deer sounding like 7 Across (4)

6. Dull food will do gets chewed up anyway (6)

7. Is in the pink when looking high and low perhaps (7)

11. What writer needed to kill new version of it (7)

13. Young person mixing green tea (8)

14. Ball fits into it in joint fashion (6)

15. Irritate one with a sistrum (6)

16. Was frightened of having freed a version of it (6)

19. A chit from college turning up (4)

20. A clue that’s thin, taken head-to-tail (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Capacity 5. Admits 10. Solar 11. Night-gown

12. Machete 13. Tonnage 14. Rattle 16. Striped 19. Scatter

21. Entice 25. Comment 26. Limited 28. Incubated 29. Tense

30. Galaxy 31. Reverent

Down: 1. Cashmere 2. Polecat 3. Curve 4. Tender 6. Detention

7. Isolate 8. Singer 9. Agitate 15. Letterbox 17. Testate 18. Headrest

20. Comical 22. Intense 23. Acting 24. Sludge 27. Mitre