30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Be superior: evict the pupils! (8) 5 Bring up the back (4) 9 Backward poet is dull (4) 10 Credits graduate with weapons (8) 11 Get an executor (5) 12 It’s very hard work for Virginia in the way (7) 13 Teacher on track? (7-6) 18 Animal makes worker run off with girl (8) 19 Help from a wager (4) 20 Add men’s claims (7) 21 Feeling of displeasure among strangers (5) 22 Feel sorry for youth leader at mine (4) 23 Sound a letter like a buccaneer (8)

DOWN

2 Virtuous sort of piano? (7) 3 A case for senior ministers (7) 4 First jobs at the beginning of courses? (8-5) 6 Can then bewitch (7) 7 Animal thief disturbs the leaves? (7) 8 The state of a hat? (6) 13 Spectator enclosure erected, so get to one’s feet (5,2) 14 At first entice to try (7) 15 Contained by territory away from the coast (6) 16 Bridge-building tool? (7) 17 Meet Len in part (7)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 6 Flannel; 7 Sousa; 9 Act; 10 Lightship; 12 Street cries; 15 Come to grips; 17 Parttimer; 19 Win; 21 Get on; 22 Legally.

Down: 1 Slack; 2 End; 3 Peri; 4 Conscript; 5 Assizes; 8 Whiter; 11 Attention; 13 Erotic; 14 Donated; 16 Yield; 18 Even; 20 Fag.