CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 2. What publisher writes is unclear picture of book initially (5) 5. Credit will go like clockwork, one is told (4) 7. Ensign may have a cigarette around end of meal (4) 8. Walked all over the cargo boat and went ahead (8) 9. A couple allowed to have a piece of jewellery (8) 11. Class of record known to the police (4) 12. Ease of handling Malaya: begin it like this (13) 15. Starts fitting lintels under every smoke outlet (4) 17. Thinks back on how Mirror behaves? (8) 19. Thing ref will wave to give one a scare (8) 21. Greet one with a comedown that’s hard (4) 22. Retail outlet, talking of which it’s one’s own business (4) 23. What’s spent in El Salvador at one point on top of another? (5) DOWN 1. Sickness apparent in the animal Ariadne held (7) 2. Plant a microphone, which will annoy one (3) 3. To the time that a French bed turns up in France (5) 4. Turns out barn but comes up with what’s dipped into, luckily (4-3) 5. The point of giving it up quietly (3) 6. Sort of soup one can get over (5) 10. Long for cheer-leader to sound wildly enthusiastic (5) 11. A self-adjustment for the unfaithful (5) 13. Irregular way to produce rice with art (7) 14. Knotted lace edging with different tint in the label (7) 16. Way to roll when left in it, helpless (5) 18. Last round might fail to include nitrogen (5) 20. Cheat a college servant at Cambridge (3) 21. She’s a bird seen in the nest (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Remuneration 8. Abdicate 9. Star 11. Dodge 12. Immense 13. Ears 15. Asia 19. Tipping 20. Knack 22. Cook 23. Helmsman 24. Safe and sound Down 2. Ended 3. Uncles 4. Entail 5. Intends 6. Nerve-racking 7. Candlesticks 10. Imp 14. Reproof 16. Dip 17. Agreed 18. Akimbo 21. Ammon