CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

22/6

ACROSS

1. Macon, politic to change – but that’s an added snag (12)

8. What one shows, being keen, is what capital will earn (8)

9. Solomon’s seal, for example, in the night sky? (4)

11. Six, semi-rustic, may make one sick (5)

12. What Turk might have called one could end in fife arrangement (7)

13. Seaside feature, cellophane-wrapped or barnacle-encrusted! (4)

15. Alban the man of note, and the great mass of 13 (4)

19. Army doctor is to get net return and won’t leave it dry (7)

20. I believe it’s Latin! (5)

22. A pedigree that may be found in the forest (4)

23. Very nasty, and right on the bone when in a hole (8)

24. Status being lowered, is no longer running (8,4)

DOWN

2. Ring? True, it changes: ring! (5)

3. Study both ends of pantomime with a bit of strategy (6)

4. Having brought it out, is having a writ served (6)

5. Concentrated on counting decimally at the end of the line (7)

6. Places where they tend to look after one well? Ill, too! (7,5)

7. They take what one’s got in change and beat it (12)

10. Away to one side it’s no longer fresh (3)

14. The beast is fabulous, the idea fanciful, with him in mixed race (7)

16. There’s no alternative to story of swinish accommodation (3)

17. With authority direct leaderless men to enlist (6)

18. Made cuts but got goals (6)

21. Sort of joint where the Spanish make obeisance (5)