CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 7. Make Mum coin 4 as a piece of correspondence (13)

8. Large-hearted Ammon using a version of it (11) 12. Montelimar turned to a gun (6)

14. One born to a place like Vietnam is endlessly confused (6)

16. Hung with material taken from red pad (6) 18. Birds, or the reverse, among those that lay (6) 19. Is profaning the act designer contrived (11) 23. It may find where one's having a drag and alarm one (5,8) ▶ Down 1. Fate is nothing a Benedictine can circumvent (4) 2. Sticks it up with offensive self-complacency (4) 3. Is Nan fit to rock the baby? (6) 4. Director's call to start the fighting (6)

5. If over the top, nothing will smell of roses (4) 6. The governor will make a mess of his shot (4) 9. Fawn upon one grown up about a drug, ecstasy (7)

10. Fabled beast put coin of a sort in the vase (7) 11. There isn't as much turning up in Brussels (4) 12. Where leaf joined stem, nothing got in the wrong end (4)

13. Ruthless cutting down of some taxes (3) 15. Fear of it turning up in Newark (3)

17. Ten years rotted away, one is told (6)

18. The home circle will listen to half of them (6) 19. It rounded off the top of the Millennium (4) 20. It's on behalf of a drink the Japanese enjoy (4) 21. How Cain came to be in old Peru (4) 22. Warm feeling a worm has for a beetle (4) ▶ Yesterday's solution Across 1. Accentuates 7. Thrusts 9. Fuel 11. Drive 12. Moment 14. Detrimental 18. Twinge 20. Eject 22. Meet 23. Tombola 24. Flower vases Down 2. Carbine 3. Test 4. Exude 5. Study 6. Plots 8. Steerage 10. Moonbeam 13. Imp 15. Anemone 16. Stamp 17. Steak 19. Ideal 21. Star