Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. They meet the needs of strikers (11) 9. Coachman? (7) 10. It’s time the score should

indicate it (5) 11 & 19Dn. Tackle the job, as wrestlers strive to do (3,2,5) 12. Feeling the cold – a southern winter in France needed (7) 13. If care is taken a conveyance can be produced (6) 15. Artist’s room where the boss is seen before ten (6) 18. Perspicacity in one

sense (7) 20. Describing a diamond that’s not reduced in price (5) 22. A bit of research indicates it’s a means of communication in Asia (5) 23. Time-server in better order (7) 24. Performs capriciously! (4,3,4)

DOWN

2. A role detached from others (5) 3. Geographical line for a hundred on trip (7) 4. Kind of board used by the builder and the teacher (6) 5. Vessel used in a bucket chain (5) 6. Didn’t stay put – drove me mad! (7) 7. This may make one too nervous to go on (5,6) 8. A quartet of advertisements for beds (4-7) 14. Shockingly endless

increase in poison (7) 16. What’s the excursionist doing getting involved in a gun riot? (7) 17. A stabbing pain produced

by a needle (6) 19. See 11 Across 21. It indicates a break in continuity for the butterfly (5)