Weekend Quick Cryptic 114 - Solution

Phil Jordan, Sawbill and I are continuing to produce our series of Quick Cryptic crosswords. We take turns, publishing one a fortnight, and this week it's Sawbill's turn. 

You can find a link to the crossword here and the answers below.  Feel free to leave any comments or questions here as you would do on  TfTT .  You can find an index to the complete series of crosswords here. 

Before looking at the answers, if you would like some additional help, click the label below.

Hints and tips...

Some hints and tips:

• In 15A you need to separate "run quickly".
• The regulator at 19A regulates electric current by varying the resistance
• The "bit of wind" at 20A is a wind instrument.
• Rump in 4D refers to the final letter.
• You need to separate "pardon me" in 6D

And click on this label to get the solution.

Solution and explanation of the answers...

Definitions  underlined in bold italics , ( Abc )* indicating anagram of Abc,{deletions} and [] other indicators.

 

 Across
1 Terrorist leader abandons email exchange (5,3,5)
OSAMA BIN LADEN – (abandons email)* [exchange].
8 Increase alcohol at first in drink (4)
GAIN – First letter of Alcohol in GIN (drink).
9 Provided money at a high level (8)
ADVANCED – Double definition
10 Her co-stars formed into musical groups (10)
ORCHESTRAS – (Her co-stars)* [formed into].
12 Wrote music and had success (6)
SCORED – Double definition.
14 Shout 'not working' and pull out (3,3)
CRY OFF – CRY (shout) OFF (not working).
15 Unlikely to run quickly after Gold, say. (10)
COLOURFAST – COLOUR (Gold, say) FAST (quickly).
19 Regulator that cooks the roast (8)
RHEOSTAT – [cooks] (the roast)*.
20 Bit of wind old blokes often ignored (4)
OBOE – O (old) and alternate letters of BlOkEs [often ignored].
21 Eventually, one is gripped by dreadful terror also (6,2,5)
SOONER OR LATER – ONE in [dreadful] (terror also)*.
 
Down
2 Fake diamond ... that's lucky (8)
SHAMROCK – SHAM (fake) ROCK (diamond).
3 May, perhaps, form on the inside (5)
MONTH – Hidden in forM ON THe [inside].
4 Cooked rump of lamb on high? (7)
BRAISED – Last letter [rump] of lamB, RAISED (on high).
5 Chamberlain briefly meets Queen? At no time (5)
NEVER – NEV (Neville Chamberlain) [briefly] ER (queen).
6 Pardon me ... nasty mix-up! (7)
AMNESTY – (me nasty)* [mix-up].
7 Quits day before opening night (4)
EVEN – EVE (day before) and first letter of, [opening], Night.
11 Leaving with certainty, we hear, at sea (8)
OFFSHORE – OFF (leaving) SHORE sounds like [we hear], SURE (with certainty).
13 Crazy Moroccan decapitated animal (7)
RACCOON –  Without the first letter, [decapitated], ({m}oroccan)* [crazy]
14 Table response (7)
COUNTER – Double definition
16 Afterwards in city missing last bit of term (5)
LATER – LA (Los Angelese; city) TER{m} [missing last bit].
17 All plants I'd taken from area around Miami (5)
FLORA – FLOR{i’d]A – (area around Miami), losing the I’D [taken from].
18 I'm surprised I get next to nothing in this state (4)
OHIO – OH (I’m surprised) I O (0; nothing). “Next to” is a juxtaposition indicator here.