CROSSWORD

Across

1 apt to steal (11) 9 Finish off the job? (7) 10 a place where waiters are forgotten? (5) 11 Spent american notes (4) 12 arch-supporter of comic policemen (8) 14 Some variations in game line-up (6) 16 unnatural cunning (6) 18 Crimes put one’s life in jeopardy (8) 19 a lifetime of bridge (4) 22 Side where the brightest is best off (5) 23 The end is not in reach (7) 24 He has no power to go over people’s heads, but does (6,5)

Down

2 Part that is played? (5) 3 Put to flight right away (4) 4 Like better quietly to allude to something (6) 5 your ills may turn out to be imaginary (8) 6 Leisure period gets cancelled (4,3) 7 an attraction to excursionists on a diet? (7,4) 8 He takes interest in his work (11) 13 Call-up date wrongly issued (8) 15 Heard improper golf score isn’t sanctioned by official rules (7) 17 one can’t go straight ahead and make it (6) 20 In short, a final result of a snap decision (5) 21 a case for sewers (4)