CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Journey’s break proves to

be a disaster (8)

6. Wise but cheesy in

Derby (4)

8. Speak indistinctly of

slight (4)

9. Midlands town where nothing is consumed, we hear (8)

10. Having a thorough

knowledge of sympathy (13) 11. Good man with record

pace (4)

13. Forged link in the

furnace (4)

17. Made to learn the hard way

(6,1,6)

20. Drawn from the decks (8) 21. Young man with youth leader becoming one of the opposite sex (4)

22. Street work to finish (4) 23. Rush along the line to get

some music from it (4,4)

DOWN

2. New Testament parable first

about Biblical money (6) 3. Faultless when tense (7) 4. Beautiful woman’s heavenly

body (5)

5. Proceeded very quickly to

fire and plunder (7)

6. 18 Down and pay for

everybody (5)

7. There’s no grey variety of

mole (6)

12. Vessel lacking

stabilisers? (7)

14. Circuit linking bell and

tape (4,3)

15. Cheerleader takes another

small box (6)

16. Waylay coach and cause

delay (4,2)

18. Unstable Portuguese

abandon euros for rise (3,2) 19. Most of the financial records are on the windowsill perhaps (5)