YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

Deserting town like this, where a premier is concerned (7,6)

2. Will be fast — but not if it’s colour that does! (3)

3. Pick hose company produces (6)

4. Well, it could be one is over-effusive (6)

5. Decks the Navy with soda perhaps (6)

6. Dying to hold Pole like this when strategically placing men (9)

7. Mr Parry, gone in for making matins (7,6)

1. Sibyl 4. Palermo 8. Nostalgia 9. Mug 10. Article

12. Sign 14. Gunboat 17. Heel 18. Whitsun 20. Own

21. Syncopate 23. Salient 24. Dolls

Down: 1. Sunday schools 2. Besets 3. Loan club 4. Peg

5. Leap 6. Remain 7. Organ-grinders 11. Elbow 13. Manifold

15. Kernel 16. Assail 19. Esse 22. NUT