Crossword

Saturday's puzzle.

Across

1 The back of a disc – often not heard on TOTPs, if the front is a hit (8)

5 Eg London's Garrick (often full of TV and showbiz folk) (4)

9 Actuality – as in a TV documentary (7) 10 Serious annoyance, such as is stirred up by hooligans at football matches (5)

11 Nick Jordan in Casualty (7,6)

13 David Attenborough presented Life On ----- (5)

15 One giving two wrong answers on Fifteen To One will be a ----- (5)

17 A programme for avid readers with Amanda Ross on More-4 (3,2,4,4)

21 Rules about bad language may be relaxed ----- the 'watershed' (5)

22 James Cagney used to play a ------- in gangland films (7)

23 On The Weakest Link, the strongest link has the first ---- in the next round (4)

24 Large South African deer seen on wildlife programmes (4,4)

Down

1 BBC's Up Pompeii was based on A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ----- (5)

2 Sir Jeremy -----s, first chief executive of Channel 4 (5)

3 TV chefs give the posh name of Florentine to dishes with this vegetable (7)

4 TV raconteur 'Blaster' Bates, a ---------- ---, specialising in high-stack chimneys (10,3)

6 Several ------- (traditional stories) about Robin Hood have made TV series (7)

7 The -------s Richard and David Attenborough, renowned in film and TV respectively (7)

8 Jane, who starred with Joanna Lumley in It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes, Darling (4)

12 Authority replaced by the ITC in 1991 (3)

13 Anyone might be an ------- for Millionaire – after making enough phone calls (7) . . .

14 but it wouldn't be easy to -- - ----- (get in again) (2-5)

15 Some soap 'villains' get away with anything, being so ------- (7)

16 Rod Hull's bird, a menace on chat shows (3)

18 Mrs Jack Duckworth (4)

19 The BBC features its results on Saturday evening (5)

20 Kathy, who played Waynetta Slob in Harry Enfield's show (5)

Last week's solutions

Across: 7 blue; 8 evidence; 9

broccoli; 10 Lady: 11 asleep; 13

tenant; 15 damien; 17 reject;

19 Farm; 21 roadshow; 23

Costumes; 24 evan.

Down: 1 Clarissa; 2 rescue; 3

Zero; 4 minister; 5 merlin; 6 acid;

12 panorama; 14 nicholas; 16

inmate; 18 Jasper; 20 a top; 22

also.