Double trouble

Each clue leads to two answers which differ from each other by one letter. You must decide which is the correct one. For example, the two possible answers to 7A are TEMPER and TAMPER - the answer to 1D will reveal which one is correct.

Solutions in Monday’s Daily Record

ACROSS

7 Fit of anger Meddle (6) 8 Crushed rock Go on a journey (6) 9 Boundary More icy (8) 10 Flair, panache Open pastry (4) 11 It’s said that one of these doesn’t make a summer! Lacking depth (7) 13 Adhesive Ski run (5) 15 Money provided by a government to finance educational study Hard work? (5) 17 Device used for blowing air into a fire Bulges or swells out as through action of the wind (7) 20 Anguish Bucket (4) 21 Female offspring Indication of amusement (8) 23 Part of the eye Place where two streets meet (6) 24 Glean, work out Thicken (a sauce) by boiling off water (6)

DOWN

1 Fireplace Red-suited playing cards (6) 2 Bridge’s width Medical examination using a machine (4) 3 Farm vehicle One who betrays a cause (7) 4 Cache Used foul language (5) 5 Cloth Motherly (8) 6 Expel from a country Leave (6) 12 Rope thrown to someone who has gone overboard Very similar to the person or thing represented (8) 14 Reciprocate (a feeling of love, eg) Need (7) 16 Good judgment Period of the year (6) 18 Spanner The — Lieutenant’s Woman, 1981 film with Meryl Streep (6) 19 Peel off in slivers Illuminated distress signal (5) 22 Assistant Conceal (4)