CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. Thoughtful native almost makes complete turn (13) 8. So full of romantic feeling, it drove one mad (11) 12. When it comes to the critical moment, chew on it hard (6) 14. Small bird let age worry it (6) 16. Main Street provides the morning service (6) 18. King George once tangled with an eel (6) 19. It’s a professional calling, but it causes anger (11) 23. It goes all the way round the boundary line (13)

DOWN

1. Plant this trooper took as a freebooter (4) 2. In a tabloid, the first teenager to prove a knockout (4) 3. One politician, to his confusion, will be mischievous (6) 4. Make one pay through the nose for a woolly coat (6) 5. To appear in the street, bounce (4) 6. Of a grandparent from Virginia in Alabama (4) 9. Line crossed north-to-south (7) 10. It is played briskly by everybody: ergo, it changes (7) 11. Leading player seen in the Sky at Night (4) 12. It may have honey in it to search for (4) 13. Is able to give one a drinking-mug (3) 15. Has a shot at an indication of past time (3) 17. Bad as the weather is, my sort rides it out (6) 18. Church makes plea for another place to pray (6) 19. Friend holds one bucket (4) 20. Pained expression you chance to include (4) 21. One thing on the list one encountered as it came up (4) 22. Part of the bottle or nothing, if risking all (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Shop steward 7. Resumed 9. Aged 11. Again 12. Pastel 14. Personality 18. Ticked 20. Ninth 22. Earn 23. Postage 24. Tiddlywinks Down 2. Hostage 3. Tide 4. Right 5. Break 6. Oddly 8. Minister 10. Railings 13. One 15. Tintack 16. Steed 17. Cheek 19. Corgi 21. Spry