CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Deep tone of a sea-fish (4) 3. See 14 Across 9. Cheat RAF dude badly (7) 10. Sailor with a poem found home (5) 11. Penny, a skilled worker on a boat, showed bias (12) 13. Juice pot of brazil-wood (6) 15. Vehicle ‘n’ Alan combined to be sensual (6) 17. Fine, small nurse seen in food shop (12) 20. Eight etc to be reorganised (5) 21. Cure Len took at Swiss lake (7) 22. Rue awfully frenzied first nail trim (8) 23. Confusion in an army kitchen (4)

DOWN

1. Capital US pal, shortly a nuisance (8)

2. Make more secure with a strong-box, right? (5)

4. Alternative to trade is a trial (6)

5. The clearness of a slide? (12)

6. Without initial reduction of feeling (7)

7. Far down to the sea (4)

8. Large letter is an involuntary response to being moneyminded (12)

12. Tart reds went crazy on Belgian battleground (8)

14 & 3Ac. Football club managed

to drop Ron’s ten then (7,5,3)

16. Train gold cutter (6)

18. Veers over to satisfy (5)

19. Weaver to appear indistinctly (4)