CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. In being put in cup, it is treacherous to put it back (5)
4. Charge public official if I’m cheap to turn out (7)
8. European capitalist is an upright type (5)
9. One such as Pepys wrote about its raid (7)
10. One sees this to this to think alike (3)
11. One with a chair might press for nothing to be changed (9)
12. Try it out with an international match (4)
13. Going without a single medal (4)
18. With a fixed idea the bosses turn and I have to follow (9)
20. People of fashion have no little weight (3)
21. A rare copy of it in mat of a sort (7)
22. Uncertain state of bar under which this dancer goes (5)
23. It will work machine in its altered form (7)
24. It is multiplied by a national newspaper (5)
DOWN
1. He wants everything just right, being tense: is into making it (13)
2. Counts it as the fourth book of the OT (7)
3. Is able to copy a bite taken with a cocktail (6)
4. The entrance is not outside (6)
5. One at cards or at chords perhaps (6)
6. It’s out of order to put one in the wrong mass (5)
7. Toe he breaks, our genes being made up of different sorts (13)
14. When it’s most favourable for Tim to replace one in a drug (7)
15. Is to come down on Malta, say (6)
16. There’s not much that, by itself, will gradually unfold (6)
17. Ball of shot the French found in a raw hide (6)
19. It will make a gun useless to put spirits in his tea (5)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Consolidate 8. Ratel 9. Popular 10. Firedog 11. Icing 12. Lulled 14. Stupor 18. Point 19. Tide-rip 21. Sun-deck 23. Noise 24. Deteriorate
Down: 1. Careful 2. Natural 3. Oiled 4. Impugn 5. Appoint 6. Ell 7. Shrug 13. Entreat 15. Partita 16. Replete 17. Stoker 18. Paste 20. Dingo 22. Nod