Exercise your brain cells with our crossword

Exercise your brain cells

LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTIONS

ACROSS: 7) Axle, 8) Idealist, 9) Considerate, 11) Stun, 12) Organise, 13) Motor car, 15) Chew, 16) Sensitivity, 18) Waterloo, 19) Arid.

DOWN: 1) Extortion, 2) Lesson, 3) Windsor Castle, 4) Refrigeration, 5) Gluten, 6) Ask, 10) Ascertain, 14) Opener, 15) Caveat, 17) Rag.

CLUES ACROSS

7 If you’ve got a change of clothing, you’re set for Rome (4) 8 Members of the heavenly choir (8) 9 Where ponies and children gather for competition (8) 10 Skin change of a blotchy nature (4) 11 Musical entertainment with a ghost thrown in perhaps (5) 13 There was one on the Volga and a water beetle by that name (7) 15 Harmonious, sweet and dulcet refrain (7) 17 Craft occupation pursued after sales training? (5) 20 If something has no existence this could be said of it (4) 21 A Savoyard ship of musical fame (8) 23 Survey series of measured lines whose bearings are known (8) 24 Heavy leash by which a dog might be drawn forward (4)

CLUES DOWN

1 Creature of substance, carcass of association (4) 2 Flare for a landing with a felt tip pen (6) 3 One from the biggest land mass on earth (5) 4 Perfidious sedition on a national scale (7) 5 Substance of a restless ghost a-wandering abroad (6) 6 Life-saving damage limitation (5, 3) 12 Stress exerted to persuade (8) 14 Point of elevated departure to disaster movie (7) 16 Span of associated notes repeated high and low (6) 18 Charitable draw for selected prizes (6) 19 Subordinate, subject to supervision from above (5)

22 Coin in Spanish truth (4)