CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Very tired when

murdered! (4,2)

5 Father’s on hill with clergyman (6)

8 Discard a

wooden hut (4)

9 Number of driving places on the wagon (8)

10 Scowled when Greek leader was put down (8)

11 A street apart (4) 12 Books to get into musical – it’s claptrap! (3,3)

14 Arab leader heard to tremble (6)

16 Invites a king on

board ship (4)

18 Lively ghost journalist followed (8)

20 Parasite squashed orange in outskirts of Holborn (6‑2) 21 Points to good

man’s home (4) 22 Longing to throw

knight in river (6) 23 Regret turning up on not entirely free continent (6)

DOWN

2 Shakespearean character to return greeting (7)

3 Incomplete dividend

ownership grant (5) 4 Character with book

on wildlife park (6,7) 5 Unravelling concise ESP, due to false methodology (13)

6 Space for keeping

gold in platform (7)

7 From a harbour see

landing beach (5) 13 Returning, I take a long time with South African spear (7)

15 See punk about

party (5‑2)

17 Wildly paces the

room (5)

19 Beheaded victor

near the centre (5)