CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Let in many in the entrance (5)

4 Good advice to the introvert (4,3)

8 Word of praise (7)

9 Father gets through one daily, probably (5)

10 Punishing distances? (4) 11 Sick, exhausted and badly used (3-5)

13 A means to get off (4) 14 Social crawlers (4)

16 Hazel’s case epitomised? (3-5)

17 It’s a very good headlight (4) 20 The dailies held back this story (5)

21 A small games enclosure (4-3)

22 Jack may work on this ecclesiastical point (7)

23 It has to be negotiated in flight (5)

DOWN

1 A pointedly obdurate comparison (2,4,2,5)

2 Thought a great number were employed (5) 3 High-class sound? (4) 4 Fifty-one, competent and responsible (6)

5 Not in favour of being a model after work (8) 6 Overburden journalists with work (7)

7 Go round the bend, or get better? (4,3,6)

12 Deposited on the shore - or on the rocks (6,2)

13 Tirades freshly mounted (7) 15 Please pass another way (6) 18 A Greek! (5)

19 Rounds of drinks? (4)