CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. Go up and get caught by the leg (5)

5. Ring Turkish governor – go on, do it! (4)

7. Fail to include one with cat, perhaps (4)

8. Don’t have to have so much, since it’s superfluous (8)

9. Got a fix, by a fluke? (8)

11. It’s fit to be a hole with something at the bottom of it (4)

12. Zip or cinch? He’s in two minds, perhaps (13)

15. Cards that win points on court (4)

17. Is being electric something dreadful? (8)

19. This attaché has a sect on the river in Russia (8)

21. Victim of hook-up, with bigger fish in mind (4)

22. Once round the track after Coe initially: applaud that (4)

23. Tree that, of two, was here first (5) 1/7

DOWN

1. To have a devil in charge is supernatural (7)

2. Reduction in expenditure available at hairdresser’s (3)

3. ‘To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the ____ man’ (S Paul) (5)

4. Cross measure of the staff of life: this is missing (7)

5. Of the Remove, Bunter had low potential (3)

6. Some support necessary to Lease-Lend operation (5)

10. Greets such tones as are a hard comedown (5)

11. Reckon on quitting the West first, this having been destroyed (5)

13. Keep an eye on former schoolfellows, ever-changing (7)

14. Such as the Lamb and Flag – or the Dog and Duck! (3-4)

16. Without mercy, credit is universally given to the Spanish (5)

18. Bribed to be well away? (5)

20. Sort of dancing Indian malarial fever (3)

21. Except for a piece of soap to shut one out? (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Changing-room 8. Narrator 9. Stir 11. Ensue

12. Emptily 13. Vase 15. Zero 19. Noisome 20. Audio 22. Iris

23. Duration 24. Nightingales

2. Harms 3. Neared 4. Ironed 5. Outside 6. Merry-goround 7. Intervention 10. Spy 14. Sailing 16. Cog 17. Sequin

18. Banana 21. Drive

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