CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
7 Shakespearean character
loud with nearly all workers (8) 9 Sailor at edge half-cut fell (6) 10 Visit southern river (4)
11 Meeting with Spanish guard
protecting monarch (10)
12 Losing left-winger in Glasgow
team, makes cross (6)
14 Whatever annoys regularly?
Night being rearranged (8)
15 Hamish and Peter at rebuilt
arenas (13)
17 Officer set back in routine
task, daughter giggled (8)
19 Antelope's bad smell — must
mask bad smell (6)
21 Enemies making admission to
injuring birds (10)
22 Prince sampled Jamiroquai (4) 23 People surrounding adult that
is horrid person (6)
24 Chivalrous every evening, we
hear (8)
DOWN
1 Against keeping painting in
box (6)
2 Article mousy grey (4)
3 Cairn is prepared to hold
small plants (8)
4 Mention about iron left
without risk (6)
5 Assume control of chat with a
Greek criminal (4,6)
6 Declines of French
perfumes (8)
8 Smoked fish fine in bread,
obtained on pier (6,7)
13 Mine exploded in professional
test (10)
15 Legendary figure poorly,
beset by pains (8)
16 Listening to an angry arachnid
makes us puzzle (8)
18 The French knight on field,
mounted soldier (6)
20 Hunter cut wings of late
bird (6)
22 Sore Cathy losing heart
exercising (4)
ACROSS
6 Push roughly (5)
7 Unruffled (6)
9 Add sugar to (7)
10 Top part of a human
leg (5)
11 Fine strand (of hair) (4) 13 Weaken (6)
15 Social division of a
traditional society (5) 16 Flower's sweet
liquid (6)
17 In this place (4)
20 Bid in advance (5)
22 Seedless raisin (7)
23 Ahead of (6)
24 Hard, firm (5)
DOWN
1 Relating to law
courts (8)
2 Substantial (5)
3 Paid out (5)
4 Dawn till dusk (7)
5 Bird of New Zealand (4) 6 Vertically sliding set of
panes (4,6)
8 Workers' supervisor (10)
12 Be mistaken (3)
13 Global computer company (inits) (3) 14 Open to suggestion (8)
15 Bar where beer is served from the
cask (7)
18 Beneficial possession (5)
19 Thick shiny paint for woodwork (5) 21 Somehow sense (4)