CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Slithery thing with built-in toy for babe (11)

7. To come back and make Hell: that’s nothing for the Moor (7) 9. Part supporting a wall sticking out to sea (4) 11. Staggers, all wound round with cotton (5)

12. Gets smaller wax lights (6)

14. Indulges in crime through favourite taxes (11) 18. Capital with the aspiration to be parochial (6)

20. Angry one will tear about (5)

22. Carry on about such a means of travel (4)

23. Policy instalment for a national bond (7)

24. Have charged particles: these are what one owns (11)

DOWN

2. Bath let Edward show one running (7)

3. College will remark its return (4)

4. If Ken could be brought to order, he might be sharp (5) 5. Regretting being in such a plight (5)

6. In which a snake may be a treacherous person (5) 8. Final collection of mail? Blow it! (4,4)

10. Is in a line of shops and finds it heavenly (8)

13. No gold in the narrative where swine are involved (3) 15. Happy state to get round one in the wrong lane (7) 16. Have fun with direction taken by wine (5) 17. Criminal’s key to a door? (5)

19. Or in hard cash, perhaps: it’s beastly! (5)

21. Soup could have been the work of a musician (4)