THE WEE STINKER

ACROSS

1 Soil (5)

4 Expel over a fell (7)

8 Audience numbers

ABS (7)

9 Subcontinental

coin (5)

10 9 are saved by timely

one (8)

11 Den’s dapper

digger (4)

13 Real king (4)

14 Rail fabricator (4)

18 Teaching role? (4)

19 Accumulated

debris (8)

21 Saturday’s day for a

drink (5)

22 Maclean chain (7)

23 Wire in heater or fire

say (7)

24 Shout for

entertainment (5)

DOWN

1 Anxiety (6)

2 Crosses crossing (7-6) 3 My patient

treatment (8)

4 Palest blue dye (6)

5 Recall trumpet (4) 6 Helium nucleus (5,8)

7 A wee spider (dew’s

evaporated) (6)

12 Wind instrument (8)

15 Patriarch in revolutionary

dress (6) 16 Balaclava theme:

“league”? (6)

17 Claim a lock-up? (6)

20 Stringed instrument (4)