CROSSWORD

Across

1 Road-maker sees wom an about the bill (7) 5 Take vain steps to provide support (5)

8 It may break three or four times a week (5,5,3) 9 Shy in disposition, but bright (5)

10 Make the most of an adventure (7)

11 It’s not easy in a ship, assembling broken bits (6)

12 It will have an enormous bill to face (6) 15 Dazed American general in retreat and encircled (7)

17 Call of captain for ends? (5)

19 He wants a good job and no mistake (13)

20 Set traps for fish (5) 21 A dreary assembly to put in order (7)

Down

1 Hunts - with success seemingly (5)

2 Slip in a record (8,5) 3 Visibly unaffected by sorrow (3-4) 4 Subject for concern (6) 5 People count on them to send them to sleep (5) 6 Result of a fall-out in the wireless industry (13) 7 A fitting suggestion (3,2,2)

11 Close shaves? (7) 13 Open exit (7)

14 She expresses surprise about the gun (6) 16 Getting in a wild pet is silly (5)

18 Seen, we hear, to be lying (5)