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A cryptic crossword again this week. Click HERE if you prefer to work on the interactive version or to print a pdf.

You would expect to find all of the unclued lights.

Across

    7  Unclued light (6)

    8  Glanced sideways and reeled wildly (6)

    9  Little old lady; not completely dignified (4)

  10  A French intuition – absence of faith (8)

  11  Peculiar respect for ghost (7)

  13  Lazy people, southern louts (5)

  15  Unclued light (5)

  17  Ridiculously insures start of day (7)

  20  Unclued light (8)

  21  Hidden danger of rock, basalt for example (4)

  22  Oust from power misbehaving English aunts (6)

  23  Repair destroyed sword (6)

Down

    1  Act with no restraint: the French drug experience! (6, 2 words)

    2  Husks of grain in messy barn (4)

    3  Inordinately queries title (7)

    4  Unclued light (5)

    5  Essentially full in basement consisting of a number of separate rooms (8)

    6  Reflect about an action word (6)

  12  Sadly cremate a meal of scones and jam (8, 2 words)

  14  US taken in by singular rash rising troopers (7)

  16  Determine position of books containing nothing in French (6)

  18  Unclued light (6)

  19  Join group of persons with energy (5)

  21  Raised mark of the highest quality (4)

Here is last week’s solution:

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