CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Being indisposed in the holiday leads to uncertainty of action (11)

9. Walk that follows a single dance (3-4)

10. Some of the college lecturers due to take up office (5)

11 & 15Ac. They remove the ground from beneath assistant colliers (11)

12. Not a place in the market where beef is sold (2-5)

13. Throat infection – you’ll get the bird (6)

15. See 11 Across

18. Being unable to settle down makes a small number crazy, I see (7)

20. This girl has opposite directions about America (5)

22. Makes an approach to northern listeners (5)

23. Stage-door, maybe, for singers in variety (7)

24. But they don’t necessarily contain funeral cards (4-7)

DOWN

2. What a principal has managed to get! (5)

3. Restricts people’s movements in revolutions, we hear (7)

4. Could it be a greyhound going round the track? (3-3)

5. Overhead lock (5)

6. Do some cutting in the theatre (7)

7. In practice he’s a standin (5-6)

8. No outmoded state (11)

14. Thoroughly search for strong drink before the game is ruined (7)

16. Practical knowledge in particular location, one hears (7)

17. He wrote a schoolboy translation in the southeast (6)

19. Given a course in physics (5)

21. This will pierce some of the oyster’s pearls (5)