Original cryptic crosswords by Algy

Block crossword BL_0004


BL_0004 puzzle

I don’t remember this one specifically, but it must date from 2003 or 2004. Not a grid I would use these days.

ACROSS

  1. Cheat the Royal Marines for a place to sleep (4)
  2. Stand still after yawning in cold store (4-6)
  3. Dandies spoofed clumsily and dropped the dictionary (4)
  4. Cook up lentil riot in pasta (10)
  5. Radio detective has crazy helpmate. Not a surprise! (6)
  6. I’ve come round before lines lead to variable in a wicked manner (6)
  7. Renter has not so much oriental direction (6)
  8. Cue Hun out of place in the harem (6)
  9. Dreadful grey rift in revolution (10)
  10. 10 and 10 is different thereafter (4)
  11. Register of bread and people in tree (10)
  12. American perfume from steaming rodeo out east (4)

DOWN

  1. Expunge part of love ditty (4)
  2. Turn with energy through bar (4)
  3. Injurious when constrained by work inverting protective framework (6)
  4. Determine to put detectives in river! (6)
  5. A shortage of decency? If I am agitated! (10)
  6. High calibre pun by antimonarchist (10)
  7. Amplify too much - so unsettled tenor vexed (10)
  8. Kind dog is compositor (10)
  9. Sorcerer loses heart, shivers and makes mistakes (6)
  10. Wholesome journalist has an international degree with the French (6)
  11. Rough cider – not right, but chilled (4)
  12. Courage needed to take heroin away from turbulent thugs (4)

BL_0004 solution