{ THE CROSSWORDS }

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Unconventional first fancy of a bet comes good (7)

5 Laughter in company’s causing disorder (5) 8 Made money illegally (13)

9 To and fro, round and round it goes (5) 10 So Laura creates excitement (7)

11 Puts up a house for sale, perhaps (6) 12 Took advantage of American in a plot (6) 15 Small company having unusually short Roman soldiers (7)

17 Hit 150 before getting dismissed (5) 19 Different view put in writing by a dramatist? (6,2,5)

20 Follow directions and prosecute (5) 21 Photographed out of doors? (7)

DOWN

1 Prize awarded for a zero mark? (5)

2 Jets start out from them (13)

3 Went in for tree chopping in the end (7) 4 Used in a sewing machine it goes round a screw (6)

5 An ingredient of sacred orthodoxy (5)

6 They adopt different attitudes when working (7,6)

7 Burdened - with a back-seat driver? (7) 11 Self-propelled transport (7)

13 Is more cheerful when the dollar’s risen? (5,2) 14 Received a hero’s treatment when landed (6) 16 Knave withdrawn from the pack? (5)

18 A step in making tyres (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Performance of music (7) 5 Conflict (5)

8 Rubella (6,7)

9 To long (5)

10 A stretch (7)

11 Great poverty (6)

12 Speculation (6)

15 Person of high rank (7)

17 Evade (5)

19 With little advance warning (2,5,6) 20 Brusquely brief (5)

21 Tolerant of delay (7)

DOWN

1 A form of football (5)

2 A preliminary event (7-6) 3 Athletics instructor (7) 4 Tightly clinging mollusc (6) 5 Confine (5)

6 Soon enough (3,2,4,4) 7 Socks, stockings (7)

11 Richly costumed parade (7) 13 Place of concealment (7) 14 Repressed (4-2)

16 Deep humming sound (5) 18 Bring to bear (5)