CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 2. Bet one’s pay on the first race (5)

5. Movie the Italian made in radio of a sort (4)

7. Get black mark for blue material (4)

8. Teach one to make a crust: tin is available for it (8) 9. Bedspread, etc, lover has laid out (8)

11. The main part shows its fullness of flavour (4)

12. In time order garlic spread on cool hob-top (13) 15. Potter works it back into the royal collection (4) 17. Pottery head chef used to cork rye with (8)

19. Dream who can be so bound when heading back where he started (8)

21. Sudden expansion in business has a hollow sound to it (4) 22. Material join makes me as different as possible (4)

23. It’s a classic bowler (5)

DOWN

1. Gigantic, like the tusker that’s no longer with us (7) 2. Humour that will fade away with her (3)

3. Girl turning on appeal finally to interrogate one (5) 4. Its root may be used in preparation of a rice dish (7) 5. Tree is found if turning right (3)

6. I could lose nothing, being clear in my mind (5) 10. Such wood may go hard by one (5)

11. First battalion to chance being promptly active (5) 13. Its trees give one an alternative to white beet (7) 14. Portia may have been about right to land here (7) 16. Slack thus taken up in love five had abandoned (5) 18. Tidiness that comes between family and class (5) 20. Its wood was held up by Hamlet (3)

21. Where vehicle may park a laurel (3)