CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6. A loud story can be benign (7) 7. Book about the fifth man (5) 9. Dug up some material (5) 10. Possibly gorge on cheese (7) 12. Nought, perhaps (5,6) 14. I hire parson, somehow, being one of his flock (11) 18. Hug, as in terrible agony (7) 19. At which you might buy bits of canvas, say (5) 21. Something valuable when established (5) 22. Upset might show who is a bighead (7)

DOWN

1. Frequently decimal? (5) 2. A transgression in the company

gambling club (6) 3. Headless light beer (3) 4. Snack which might be stolen

from Battersea? (3,3) 5. What a marriage guidance

counsellor does? (7) 8. Possibly take about an inch off

this material (7) 11. Show keen interest in tune he’s

rewritten (7) 13. Disappear right into a coat (7) 15. Hardened and ruined

possibly (6) 16. Pass racing circuits in point-to

point (6) 17. Take the waters, say (5) 20. Used to be returning a tool (3)