CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Hissed about crockery? (6)

8 Butterflies discovered in cleaner vests (6)

9 Communications device making one happy (8) 10 Finished six deliveries (4)

11 Shrill greeting, we hear (4)

12 Fable is concocted about East – it’s possible (8) 14 Easiest may be misspelt (8)

16 Scoffs at outer directions (4)

18 Pru’s remarkable stimulus (4)

20 Charge and charged particles in

enormous numbers (8)

22 Cairo nice? That’s somewhat

cynical (6)

23 Show off muscle or muscle (6)

DOWN

1 A wild outing and one light

celebration (6)

2 Quickly demands two cuts of

meat (4-4)

3 City of some Romeo’s love (4)

4 Mutually respond to certain movement

ahead of junction (8)

5 So ears glow now and again (4)

6 Breakfast food produced in

instalments, so we hear (6)

12 Give dinner to sponsor for public

response (8)

13 Semi-edit mistake on a list (8)

15 Mischievous child approaches river

that’s not clean (6)

17 Care about sinew (6)

19 Rotten row (4)

21 Raise 51 feet (4)