CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A vehicle in the satellite that takes the biscuit (8)

7. Keep on complaining of the hold one has on the East (5)

8. Is later to turn to one seeing things for what they are (7)

9. Ray of light might give me a bonus, nothing less (7)

10. Grain wildly sown in youth (4)

12. A lot of water, or its appearance in a river (7)

14. Oppressive way one’s embraced our confusion (7)

17. Be fond of one of the same kind (4)

18. Anguish of people caught in legal wrong (7)

21. This rigger of three cups protects his finger (7)

22. This is roughly what it is connected with (5)

23. Very strong soldiers in the VE turn-out (8)

DOWN

1. The inner meaning of vegetable with a rind (6)

2. Punish one this case sorts out (8)

3. One to race about causing devastation (4)

4. Suet to be mixed at the beginning (6)

5. Lift up one’s skirts and take a long walk (4)

6. It covers the rail when family dog goes round a tree (6)

7. Enlarge on his position at the head of the army (7)

11. Say one objects to professional match in a series (7)

13. Find Ben alive in a way others want to be (8)

14. Expenditure no longer fashionable with the non-professional (6)

15. Seat put out on driving-off ground (6)

16. Proper net put out after last short month (6)

19. Mathematical function of the turnip, say (4)

20. The finishing line starts wavering in racegoers’ estimation (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Backlog 5. Carnage 9. Kerbstone 10. Aware 11. Spinster

12. Strict 14. Greenness 16. Aggro 17. Rules 19. Reimburse

21. Unwell 22. Standard 26. Orion 27. Condition 28. Spenser

29. Exerted

Down: 1. Bakes 2. Carbine 3. Loses 4. Gooseberry 5. Crew

6. Roast lamb 7. Amazing 8. Electrode 13. Assistance 14. Garrulous

15. Nestlings 18. Low life 20. Realist 23. Noise 24. Dined 25. Scar