CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

7 Vehicle to protect leaders (8)

8 Warms up missing starter and devours (4) 9 Partly turn a handle, run a machine, produce fertiliser (6)

10 Jack has dubious moment (5) 11 Observed in Henley education (4) 12 Aristocratic subject: boxing (5,3) 14 Consider right in a minute, perhaps (8)

18 Girl stood up (4)

20 Back with one language in India (5)

22 Foreign affairs? (6)

23 Singer from provincial town (4)

24 How bounders are caught unawares (2,3,3)

DOWN

1 Young Sally takes a railway wage (6) 2 Guides an unruly Christian lamb (5,3) 3 Inn where clergyman comes over in brown (6) 4 Strange piece of work for Bond villain (6) 5 Flick insect, top to bottom (4)

6 Strong horse as yet unreliable, right? (6) 13 Noble awards for listeners’ parts (3,5) 15 Maintain that armed robbery is out of order (6) 16 Girl – at the heart of gal is one (6) 17 Praises rambling tales about kiss (6) 19 Address Poles about more suffering (6) 21 Twelve each way (4)