CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Violet’s seen it out of order! (10,3)

8 Appear smaller, we hear, having no joining (8)

9 The vivacity of the free lance (4)

10 Brings the ship to dock, one hears, for new arrivals (6)

12 In the south it’s wrong to keep pressing a point (6)

14 Push fifty to make a scoop (6)

16 Just the word for opening time! (6)

18 Responsibility we’re carrying (4)

20 Commented on a rush about German currency (8) 22 It’s unusual for the crowd player to have an armorial charge (13)

DOWN

1 Always coming in to use rod and line - over-eager, in fact (8) 2 A valance taken from the temple (6)

3 A private line used for keeping office records (4) 4 Flying boats? (8)

5 You need to have the first word as far as the ultimatum is concerned (6)

6 Take a gamble before writing a letter (4)

11 Where a lot may go for very little (8)

13 Precise correspondence of one side with another (8) 15 Where service clothing is assumed (6)

17 Bound to provide water for part of the year (6) 19 Immediately after getting ten in the snare (4)

21 Forced to be a domestic servant, by the sound of it (4)