CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
7. Letting one down past pin, doing one wrong (13) 8. A wicked sort of illumination (11) 12. Kiosks get both so upset (6) 14. Treat one to stories, for instance, in real medley (6) 16. Strongly counsel 13 to change about ten (6) 18. Baptist church with belt he adapted for it (6) 19. Concert goers are men drops them out (11) 23. Relative in sticks finds coy scout in run-about (7,6)
DOWN
1. 2. 3. Compact Caution Loses liquid against it may in the hostility be, falls but (6) painful with the if slipped North (4) (4) 4. Crucible writer he deals with the corn (6) 5. No women take silver on the street (4) 6. How bone will mend and produce rib perhaps (4) 9. Somebody else is active in brief, not the lady (7) 10. Come to learn about article being purple (7) 11. A little duck for afternoon meal at end of April (4) 12. Make a drink of beer, mixing West for East (4) 13. A girl’s father, lean, it would seem (3) 15. Before the listener can be heard (3) 17. It might be his half-return, not ours (6) 18. The bough from top of beech ran to the church (6) 19. Where one may build the outline of a story (4) 20. Acknowledges that the snow confuses it (4) 21. Birds that run, half of them being American (4) 22. Put to sea to South Africa with the Italian (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Prejudicial 7. Chaired 9. Edge 11. Fling 12. Scarce 14. Personality 18. Digger 20. Idiom 22. Raid 23. Venture 24. Recollected
Down: 2. Realise 3. Dodo 4. Alder 5. Scoff 6. Level 8. Register 10. Scullion 13. Ink 15. Tribute 16. Adorn 17. Amber 19. Guide 21. Evil