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Press, 18 December 1982, Page 16

Across I—lt goes before the fall. (6) 4—Good opening with scope for clever move on board. (6) 9— good workers do — and very bad ones. (7. 6) 10— Unnecessary loss of a point irritates. (7) 11— One of the family on the Riviera, we hear. (5> 12— Plain net. (5) 14-Gun is out of order in practice. (5) 18— A blow Judy had to contend with. (5) 19— Don't leave out. (7) 21— Volume of autumnal extracts? (5-4. 4) 22— of betting trying to avoid betting slips. (6) 23— A Quaker may display it. (6)

Down 1— Used by track-runners taking rest. (6) 2— Naomi clueless? Just mixed up, perhaps. (13) 6— Two new union members. (5 f 3,5) 3— Record membership. (5) s—Not a sum, maybe, but sums. (7) 7— Works for degrees? The ones here have point. (6) 8— may be attached to a dog because of it. (5) 13-He should be fit to revise the tale. (7) 15— Is careless while filling lighters. (6) 16— The sequence of comamnd. (5) 17— A fire tender. (6) 20—He’s unable to serve any longer. (5) (Solution on Monday)

Yesterday’s solution Across; 1, Perambulator; 7. Taper; 8. Ratio: 9. Inn: 10. Represent; 11. Grouse: 12. Debate: 15, Out and out: 17. Asp; 18. Topes; 19. Ruled; 21. Scene-shifter. Down: 1. Polling-booth: 2. Map: 3. Unripe: 4. Agreement: a. Outre; 6. Bottle-opener: 7. Tango: 10, Rising sun; 13. Award: 14. Cobras: 16. Topic: 20. Lei.