CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

3 Ruin second milliner (7) 7 A steep change in old money (6)

8 Artist returns and brings up debt (7)

9 Raid failed without water (4) 11 Honest old writer (4)

12 Son to manage range (5) 15 Help make a wager (4) 16 Animal of compassion, say (4) 17 Doctor is in some dictionaries (5)

18 That woman must love saviour (4)

19 Great deal of service (4) 21 First Lady stands among wild deer, respected (7)

22 Keep marine working (6)

23 Hates also working

with article (7)

DOWN

1 Drive pins round (4) 2 Avoided new space next to journalist (7)

3 Mark ruined satin (5)

4 Both arduous and difficult inside (4) 5 Chester managed to acquire new channels (8) 6 Apple-coloured? (6)

10 Quiet rite involved money (8) 11 Nobel’s prize (1,1,1) 13 Sportsman depicted as Roman (7)

14 In favour of compromise (3) 15 A lesson is corrupt (6) 18 Terrible place in the shade, possibly (5)

19 Only a lake (4)

20 Laugh at odd nude labourer (4)