CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It has a boring life, surrounded by furniture (8) 7. Awaken memory of woman about to give the go-ahead (5) 8. Dismissed: a drawback when not introspective in type (7) 9. Makes up one’s mind and settles (7) 10. Spirit includes a profit (4) 12. Half the Tripos involved in genuine second hearing (7) 14. Russian salad? Pink, perhaps (7) 17. Corporal punishment, necessary to American education (4) 18. It causes an evil in Virginia, this flavour (7) 21. Again quotes as one spouts poetry (7) 22. Made memorandum well known (5) 23. Was on one side in case, being fed with setback, one finished (8)

DOWN

1. Inflicts injury on gowns swirling, right inside (6) 2. Got hold of, a bit done out (8) 3. We’re extended and then curtailed by sign of use (4) 4. It may give one directions right on essential part of cow (6) 5. Aged a hundred to begin with, is unfeeling (4) 6. Animal giving a content to Lewes somehow (6) 7. Former wife taking first of cereal, wrong diet, got worked up (7) 11. Largely, drank (7) 13. ‘Are you married?’ ‘Yes and no.’ So it’s communicated (8) 14. In wrong era, the wine of France makes its own gorge (6) 15. Finding it painful to speak of Dobbin, one hears (6) 16. Being rented makes for simplicity in extremes of livelihood (6) 19. Crackers – or what are dealt with by such (4) 20. A pain that continues, reached without being embarrassed (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across 1. Independently 9. Contained 10. Lemon 11. Demon 12. Miscalled 13. Nocturne 15. Disarm 18. Embody 20. Deferred 23. Water polo 24. Passé 25. Value 26. Romantics 27. Derestriction

Down 1. Incidence 2. Dynamic 3. Plain 4, 22. Nine men’s morris 5. Eldest 6. Talkative 7. Yamulka 8. Synod 14. Underwear 16. Midseason 17. Reformer 19. Bottled 21. Rossini 23. Waver 24. Punic