CRYPT IC 320

ACROSS

4 Made gesture of respect to laud set play (7)

8 Lightly touch on the bird’s design (7)

9 I’m upset by a moving force (7) 10 Strongly built vessel for towing odd empty thing about (7)

11 Learn to look after and move in rivalry (7)

12 Turn endlessly before short return in a small dome (6) 14 Relaxed after first taking separated wool fibres (6)

18 Tried me out with a mark for misconduct (7)

21 Halve orchard to use odd pieces for a salad fruit (7) 22 Different types put it a very strange way (7)

23 Before time changes for a solitary dweller (7)

24 Gave off hot vapour the way it was cooked (7)

DOWN

1 Puts out art for one suddenly risen in importance (7)

2 Put on a show in a single part of the process (5)

3 Bird around on the peg is a very keen follower (7) 4 Commonly take illegally to turn informer (6)

5 It’s left high in a flowering plant (5)

6 Taste not quite right in ragged clothing (7)

7 Given medicine put back inside so did well (5)

13 Some err suffering painful regret (7)

15 Authorise using half of them with great strength (7)

16 Sent down in position for cat to return in action (7)

17 Gave support and kept the same position (6)

18 Goes headlong into some seedy places (5)

19 A cold rum he is using (5) 20 Annoying objection to return in hall I vacated (5)