CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Keeps turning over lists of names (5) 8 Bet I’d be affected by current recession (7) 9 Trusts a reformed dynasty (7) 10 After work, nervous twitch of the eye (5) 12 So set man on as a builder (10) 15 How the patient will provide entry to all, maybe (10) 18 & 2Dn At the present time he’s a popular figure (5,5) 19 In the main, they direct the ploughmen (7) 21 Cheer up the Cabinet (7) 22 Material for which South African money is needed (5)

DOWN

1 Academic programme gives a sign of hope to us (10) 2 See 18 Ac. 3 Personage who sat uneasily before the start of the Revolution (4) 4 Diminish the importance of an academic spell, we hear (6) 5 Ordinary seaman first becomes unbalanced (8) 6 Suitable trial for the most athletic (7) 11 Being acquainted, talk shortly with a social worker (10) 13 Spanish wine without a herbal flavouring (8) 14 Doing evening work in woodcraft (7) 16 How the fishermen made a profit? (6) 17 Slowly advanced to the ring (5) 20 The ultimate appliance for the shoemaker (4)

Friday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Inelastic. 8 Poe. 9 Appropriate. 11 Durable. 12 Avail. 13 Rococo. 15 Rimini. 17 Cameo. 18 Lasagne. 20 Ace of hearts. 22 Run. 23 Assertion.

Down: 2 Nap. 3 A-bomb. 4 Tureen. 5 Chapati. 6 Opera singer. 7 Repulsive. 10 Part company. 11 Directors. 14 Cholera. 16 Bluffs. 19 Steer. 21 Too.