CRYPTIC 320

Across: 1 Concerned at using a lot of spice with your cooking? (6)

7 Because of me, he gets well and I find that very handy (8)

8 Do you get water on the brain when you wear it? (6)

9 It’s a firm denial in the photographic business (8)

10 It’s a garden plant as seen amongst the reed (6)

11 Pesters Tom who gets stern as a result (8)

14 Takes it back and is concerned only with their rhyming (8)

18 Steals just a little pile and Fred begins to take part, too (6)

19 It takes Tom and Eva to provide the incentive (8)

21 Put that lid on the tea and don’t let it be seen (6)

22 I get men to get to the right like the good soldiers they are (8)

23 Did Rose get cut off from that squalid lot? (6)

Down: 1 It’s about a carrier being first with the news (8)

2 I play games just like the others (6)

3 It just means tea flows out like that (8) 4 So you’re comfortable carrying guns? (4)

5 The sort of mower who appears to be shy, etc (6)

6 You’ll get it in the neck, you know (6) 12 Creeps around the street and seemingly shows some esteem (8)

13 It can’t be revealed and the editor has it hidden away (8)

15 Wears away like poems to Her Majesty (6)

16 How to rile 11 Romans by saying that it’s a cure-all (6)

17 Was left to cover the rich pasturage (6) 20 The monkey marks the spot at its summit (4)