CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Blue rocks do disorientate parasite (11)

9 Brief farewell from WB Yeats (3)

10 I am not late to turn spontaneously (9)

11 False set under false set (8)

12 Found in the Clyde, a dog, lifeless (4)

14 Turns around directions about a canine command (6) 16 Fruit is in the shower (6)

18 Hat – highest one (4)

19 Allowed to twist tapes round colour ranges (8) 22 Unpredictable planet cut off by one boy (9)

23 Time the Queen meets African leader (3) 24 Weapon and he mixed with danger (4,7)

DOWN

2 Student that is at home has extended sleep (3-2) 3 Soil you’d churned in a repulsive way (8) 4 Private papers muddled up (6)

5 Bird to boast (4)

6 Female ruler turning me over to the newspapers (7) 7 Hymn, you as well as I, tolerate? (5,4,2) 8 Excellent member of a girls’ organisation may be a leading light (7,4)

13 Napalm, eg, complex strategy (4,4)

15 Opera I’m composing for trading centres (7) 17 Artist by the jetty has weapon (6)

20 Time to tear up latest fashion (5)

21 Used badly then took to court (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Putting in jail (11) 9 Sink fixture (3) 10 Person selling paper goods (9) 11 Expose to injury (8) 12 Circular token (4) 14 More noisy (6) 16 Fuel for HGV engines (6) 18 Green gemstone (4) 19 Girls’ night out (3,5) 22 Building’s janitor (9) 23 Target golf score (3) 24 At ___, in dispute (11)

DOWN

2 Motorised bicycle (5) 3 Felt bitter about (8) 4 ___ down, reduced in size (6) 5 Metal pin for wood (4) 6 Childcare employees (7) 7 Chimney repairer (11) 8 Building-site workers (11) 13 Go separate ways (8) 15 Be subjected to, suffer (7) 17 Drinking cup or mug (6) 20 Very quick (5) 21 Antlered male deer (4)