CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Continue to give 19 (4)

3 The entrant put in for problem-solving apparatus (8) 8 Frank exposed (4)

9 Turning to sanctimonious election procedure (8) 11 Spirited tongue? (4,8) 13 Threw a ring of flowers (6) 14 Where what goes on the records may be decided (6) 17 Bring the aircraft down and inherit a parcel of ground, perhaps (4,2,2,4)

20 Blushing Communist stood opposite (3-5)

21 Lee’s arranged otherwise (4) 22 Presages the wine seems out (8)

23 Prepare ‘The Turn of the Tide’ for press (4)

DOWN

1 Open clash because exhibition has collapsed? (8) 2 Mean to state how old one is (7)

4 No rite from the East (6) 5 Total yield from dramatic performance? (10)

6 Object to bad night (5)

7 Gear broken in storm (4) 10 Nevertheless nobody is different (3,3,4)

12 Fear through being on ice? (4,4)

15 Everybody inside expired – tried to get a phone number (7) 16 Really part of the act (6) 18 Command discipline (5) 19 Support on stage? (4)