CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Hissed about crockery? (6)

8 Butterflies discovered in cleaner vests (6)

9 Communications device making one happy (8)

10 Finished six deliveries (4)

11 Shrill greeting, we hear (4)

12 Fable is concocted about East – it’s possible (8)

14 Easiest may be misspelt (8)

16 Scoffs at outer directions (4)

18 Pru’s remarkable stimulus (4)

20 Charge and charged particles in enormous numbers (8)

22 Cairo nice? That’s somewhat cynical (6)

23 Show off muscle or muscle (6)

DOWN

1 A wild outing and one light celebration (6)

2 Quickly demands two cuts of meat (4-4)

3 City of some Romeo’s love (4)

4 Mutually respond to certain movement ahead of junction (8)

5 So ears glow now and again (4)

6 Breakfast food produced in instalments, so we hear (6)

12 Give dinner to sponsor for public response (8)

13 Semi-edit mistake on a list (8)

15 Mischievous child approaches river that’s not clean (6)

17 Care about sinew (6)

19 Rotten row (4)

21 Raise 51 feet (4)