Cryptic Crossword
ACROSS
1. Examine those under medical treatment – they may affect future judgments (4-5)
8. Verily, it’s the equivalent of nine months! (3)
9. One may confidently gamble on them as undoubted restrictions (11)
11. One who resorts to a smack for a sail (7)
12. A matter for regret about the end of true devoutness (5)
13. Destroy the record of Rugby Union fight (3,3)
15. One who remains although he keeps going! (6)
17. I will interrupt one’s unseemly row (5)
18. Cattle food in Switzerland (7)
20. Inexperienced retainer who works on the golfcourse (5-6)
22. Be indebted for a letter, by the sound of it (3)
23. Make light of fine store being destroyed (3,2,4)
DOWN
2. As a pupil you must follow a certain direction (3)
3. An eccentric kind of shaft (5)
4. Dispatched with the railway guard (6)
5. Fastens up a favourite piece of news (7)
6. A coach outing to see a whodunit? (7,4)
7. Unfettered by imagination? (5-4)
10. Spanners used by motorists (4,7)
11. Certainly not a weak chest! (9)
14. Instruction to economise answering no purpose (7)
16. Physical training holds the way to produce a heavenly body! (6)
19. Tribal group round the East free of guilt (5)
21. Stray from the proper route (3)