CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Arch on windy moor (6)

4 Hear a group of notes for each attendant (6) 9 Friend almost ashen (3)

10 To the right, males Edward pestered (9)

11 Hot in pleasant recess (5)

12 A fantasist? Yours truly in gloomy surroundings (7) 14 In favour of canniest organisation, eg (3,8) 17 Style tailoring red coat (3,4)

18 Tall structure, one pulling another? (5)

20 Boss at the dairy? (3,6)

22 Boxer turns up in Sri Lanka (3)

23 Yes, on communist over there (6)

24 Idiots point to judge (6)

DOWN

1 Add a very quiet finale (6)

2 Company parasites nearly cause tummy‑ache (5) 3 Either son could be going up (2,3,4)

5 First person reported to survey (3)

6 Pan round garment under river (7)

7 Two‑way detection method (5)

8 Despise drop, roughly inclined (11)

13 Precision required to demand money from the head (9) 15 Goo can’t be plastered over the figure (7) 16 Exchanging dinars is exhausting (6)

17 Place baby outside eastern church (5) 19 Moby‑Dick’s moan is heard (5)

21 American exits house and finds garden tool (3)