Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
6. Not going away to do some checking (7) 7. Staking a greater amount, we hear - he’s feeble-minded (5) 9. Perform with cat, somehow (3) 10. No serious form of enjoyment (9) 12. It may be kept on hand for the fight (6,5) 15. Throw into confusion, as a rising does (11) 17. When making his incisions, he’ll leave no stone unturned! (3-6) 19. One politician can be a little devil (3) 21. Moves lightly but stumbles (5) 22. See 2 Down
DOWN
1. A whip to keep in store (5) 2 & 22 Ac. Look at the man in the box - he saw it all (10) 3. American news would be incomplete without her (4) 4. Fashion a catalogue for one who keeps strictly to the rules (9) 5. What winkers do? (7) 8. Start nothing before one is in a different ring (6) 11. This prediction could be hopelessly wrong - or so epoch-making! (9) 13. Metal bars go in a variety of tins (6) 14. Weapon required to discharge a member (7) 16. Be quiet about mother’s road accident (5) 18 & 20 Dn. i.e. novel translation of “Mephistopheles” (4,3)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS
Across: 7 Crossword clue; 8 Entrance; 9 Raft; 10 Farrow; 12 Indoor; 14 Denial; 16 League; 18 Taxi; 20 Deflated; 22 Pulling a punch. Down: 1 Frontage; 2 Usurer; 3 Swan; 4 Free will; 5 Scored; 6 Buff; 11 Well done; 13 Opulence; 15 Icicle; 17 Abacus; 19 Abut; 21 Fear.