CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

5 Cheerful pub: arranged to have dinner, say (6)

7 Squads very involved in projects (8)

9 Deficiency in period causes power cut (8)

10 Drink shared between Hamish and you (6)

11 Hands get roll misshapen in tight grip (12)

13 Guard's patrol regularly in vehicle (6)

15 No alcohol to consume good for head (6)

18 Order for seafood rations to be shelled (12)

21 Prime attack (6)

22 Fellow islander's helm was battered by knight (8)

23 Day with sportsperson becomes more lively (8)

24 Church ventilates pews (6)

DOWN

1 Salesman's half-forgotten former mantra (8)

2 Intense musical work about heartless tsar (6)

3 Graduate cut holding tip of sharp instrument (4,4)

4 Farm animal on a road is chicken (6)

6 Father sorted it all with a grand (8)

7 Bird favourite on lake (6)

8 Exposed journalist, a French revolutionary (4)

12 Cuckoo is around reptile (8)

14 Greek character and aides travelling for old country (8)

16 Progress from result of coin toss? (3,5)

17 Female put down plant (6)

18 Area of capital city with hospital (6)

19 Spite from male boxer ends in cuddle (6)

20 Mythological figure removing gold from writer (4)

ACROSS

1 ___ of soda, raising agent (11)

9 Pushy behaviour (13)

10 Confuse, often through drink (8)

12 Old timber-dressing tool (4)

14 Ruche (5)

15 Bitter (5)

19 Mash (4)

20 Hot curry (8)

22 Far from chivalrous (13)

24 Urban light source (6,5)

DOWN

2 Passports or driving licences, eg (3)

3 Wire-haired terrier (8)

4 Apparatus on a horse's head (6)

5 ___ Streatfeild, ‘Ballet Shoes’ author (4)

6 Victorian wheel-like penal device (9)

7 Sheep's offspring (5)

8 Australia/england cricket 'trophy' (5)

11 Glow from the hearth (9)

13 Literary and scholastic world (8)

16 Drug from which morphine is derived (5)

17 Troops' assigned quarters (6)

18 Japan's capital city (5)

21 Anatomical location of the anterior cruciate ligament (4)

23 Pile on cloth (3)