THE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Wrong time to be unconventional (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 oddly short Roman soldiers (7) 17 A major strike has influence (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 Loaded but prepared to ride (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 (5,2) 14 Received a hero’s treatment when landed (6) 16 Knave withdrawn from the pack?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 Walk about a little outside (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Completely perplex (7) 5 Kingdom (5) 8 Days gone by beyond recall (4,3,2,4) 9 Refuse (5) 10 Place of intense heat (7) 11 Portraitist’s subject (6) 12 Central US state (6) 15 Approximate (7) 17 One making persistent attempts (5) 19 Propitiatory gift (5-8) 20 Behave towards (5) 21 Open to the elements (7)

DOWN

1 Eminent (5) 2 What it’s all about (4,2,3,4) 3 General survey (4-3) 4 Detonate (3,3) 5 Allude (5) 6 Natural exuberance (6,7) 7 Insanity (7) 11 Scrap of information (7) 13 Important Belgian port (7) 14 Smother (6) 16 An appointed representative (5) 18 Invariable (5)