Related Clues:

• 23 down for a present
• 17 across for a present
• The sound of eight, for the present
• Take it as a matter of course
• That's the making of 17 across
• That's the way to deal with 18 down
• The cockney finds it hot, of course
• Past this is eight, by the sound of it
• Take it, of course, to be warming for the cockney
• What one may do can sound in the past like eight
• Make the tea as a matter of course
• Eight sounds like this in 13 across
• Take things as a matter of course
• Thus I don't drink
• Take a course this way while it's 'ot