CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Keeping a hosiery item (8) 5 Doctor after the morning rounds, possibly (4)

9 German woman giving the priest gold (4)

10 Left the journalist on a London street (8)

11 Glue I mix with cunning (5) 12 When to criticise music? (7) 13 We hit the plane and crashed – that’s not wanted (5,8)

18 Countryman upsets a lion (8) 19 She’s playing in goal (4) 20 Offers a number to the reds, perhaps (7)

21 Quick boats (5)

22 Rush back and get an animal (4)

23 Guess I am in the class (8)

DOWN

2 But outside right is finished (7)

3 A brilliant stroke allowed in poetry (7)

4 Rue Santa Claus somehow often responsible for death (7,6)

6 Made the man a cake (7) 7 Strange people get a shirt or a bit of one (7)

8 Put the phone down – it’s a problem (4-2)

13 The least successful pressman’s yarn (7)

14 Terribly genuine, but innocent (7)

15 The queen does get upset and becomes worn out (6) 16 Home Office breaking the mould in search for gangster (7) 17 Fail to care for Glen, etc, perhaps (7)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Widest. 4 Hopper. 9 Assertiveness. 10 Triceps. 11 Arose. 12 Surly. 14 Press. 18 Drawn. 19 Riposte. 21 Unimaginative. 22 Tender. 23 Stages.

Down: 1 Wealth. 2 Disfiguration. 3 Spree. 5 Open-air. 6 Prepossessing. 7 Rushes. 8 First. 13 Lineage. 15 Adjust. 16 Broil. 17 Severs. 20 Plant.