CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

7/8 ACROSS

2. Have confidence in its running of an estate (5)

5. Sandpiper was collared by an Elizabethan (4)

7. Picture it, in pencil, for an even result (4)

8. Sort of squirrel that goes pink, much embarrassed (8)

9. To be so tactful about it, creed’s worked out (8)

11. Don’t let it go in the cargo space (4)

12. Given distinguishing marks by letter, side has to be changed (13)

15. Strip the skin off a fly maybe (4)

17. Float body in air, and tie valet to it (8)

19. Introduce it on trim turnout (8)

21. Intensely dislike what exhibitionist shows (4)

22. He’s so sanctimonious, he must change his grip (4)

23. Measures the beams on the masts (5)

DOWN

1. Lose lustre of mountain water, to his confusion (7)

2. Take along behind the flax fibres (3)

3. He takes one’s pledge at the sign of three balls (5)

4. A prickly thing, a national emblem may be (7)

5. Aries is the sign for a ship’s beak (3)

6. It might fail to include the North in the last round (5)

10. To be an expectant mother, if one can bear it (5)

11. It gives one a lift if one is taken in by entertainer (5)

13. Defamation of Lucy man arranges (7)

14. Give one the right to give it a name (7)

16. Ship coming from the River Nile (5)

18. He puts his cross up in acre to vindicate it (5)

20. Time for jazz in a student frolic (3)

21. Owns some of the wealth a showman holds (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

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