DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

4 Leave while an orchestra is performing (7) 8 Time for a sailor-boy? (6) 9 Does he fix the price of a horse? (7) 10 Outcome of Ulster riot (6) 11 Idler who needs bread to eat? (6) 12 Finished about six to return from capital (8) 18 Girl to run away with writer (8) 20 Resign because of one’s self-image? (6) 21 Perhaps he used swords to keep people out (6) 22 It’s clear the old boy has five debts (7) 23 Savage versifier, censorious in part (6) 24 The lengths associations will go to? (7)

DOWN

1 It’s dear with legs apart (7) 2 Entry ticket I have acted upon (7) 3 Worked, having been lubricated to a T (6) 5 Had gone round cargo store, and was indebted (8) 6 He could be French like William (6) 7 Writer in over-poetic beginning (6) 13 Unmasking in dark room? (8) 14 Anxiety for the firm (7) 15 Steps by which letters are obtained (7) 16 Bother going topless – currency needed (6) 17 Needlework is displayed in the south-east part of the building (6) 19 Look at the cover – the pupil’s cover (6)