Cryptic crosswords
ACROSS
1. My star: she is a cause of general emotional outbreak (4,8)
8. May be loved, going out abroad with the French (8)
9. Ejected spittle in a petty quarrel (4)
11. Room beneath the room for cat it replaces (5)
12. Obsolete tour now to be arranged (7)
13. Put it out that it’s back on the hour (4)
15. It isn’t so much a bit of a blessing (4)
19. Admitted the pound we had in change (5,2)
20. Force ten will try to take it by assault (5)
22. Be guided to a target in the mother country (4)
23. Greek capitalist has given inn a heat to sort out (8)
24. Is exposing one to scandal by making concessions (12)
DOWN
2. It is roughly around (5)
3. It stiffens the laundry, so much formality (6)
4. Saffron may make it cowardly (6)
5. Censure one over pre-arrangement (7)
6. This means not to be upset by one’s being amazed (12)
7. Disastrous way a feline gets past choir (12)
10. Letter from Greece, and when it’s expected to come (3)
14. Smallest quantity in a note, rum right away (7)
16. Put on a direct debit (3)
17. Spit must turn up somehow (6)
18. Flowers can be braided in a tress (6)
21. Vegetable put on when no one turns up (5)
ACROSS
2. It’s hardly used to strike a light (5)
5. Put the question as to what a model will do (4)
7. Blue conversation gets a black mark (4)
8. Will flood let Aunt dine out? (8)
9. Grabbed chest, and twisted it (8)
11. By holding party back, found the corpse (4)
12. Condensing of something takes steady application of the mind (13)
15. A fortified wine left for the matelot (4)
17. Chap sure set out to buy things (8)
19. Is uncommunicative, it having returned in the not-long-ago (8)
21. How to dispose of 11 Across to the east of Bolton (4)
22. It doesn’t sound strong for a sennight (4)
23. It is the drink that makes one fat (5)
DOWN
1. To me, it may be about people given as a keepsake (7)
2. It is suitable if it turns up on time (3)
3. Whiskey, spelt like that, in the chair is his (5)
4. Speak very loudly in the end, hurt though it may (7)
5. Run softly, and get something to make notes on (3)
When full up, seat may be given to old copper (5)
