CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. By getting in half the silver, she was able to prophesy (5)

4. In Sicily, gets even more wan when army doctor finishes (7)

8. Make it as a long change from dreaming of the past (9)

9. Go for one on the street and get a drink out of it (3)

10. It’s a thing one may read in the newspaper (7)

12. Is returned by heartless marksman as a portent (4)

14. Twisting a bung to make a craft out of it (7)

17. A part of the film that will move unsteadily (4)

18. Play whist – a French form – at Pentecost (7)

20. A particle gets on ahead for it to produce tears (3)

21. At once, spy changes to make it off-beat (9)

23. A woman’s lover will annoy a model of industry (7)

24. No real babies could be sold for about fifty (5)

DOWN

1. Start of Christian Sabbath will change and ruin my song (6,7)

2. Wagers the Southeast will be taken in if one worries it so (6)

3. Advance on wood: one puts in and takes out in it (4,4)

4. A drink of spirits may enable one to score at cribbage (3)

5. Where the salmon get up, one year in four (4)

6. Get me up in the wet if I stay behind (6)

7. With a sort of groan, millers turned handles in the street (5,8)

11. Having raised it, after end of binge break the bowl (5)

13. Isle, say, if ancient: there are many of them (8)

15. This is the heart of the matter, where nut is concerned (6)

16. Like, put to sea in order to attack one … (6)

19. … or give it first-class come-uppance in the Orient (4)

22. A clear profit one may gather from the sea (3)