30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Make out cinders (7) 8 Alternatively one spirit is

the starting-point (6) 9 Incidental result of drive

being cancelled (4-3) 10 Generator working from

Monday (6) 11 I am to have two similar ones

to spoil (6) 12 Be lazier when unemployed?

(8) 18 Write trite quotation on fivesided figure (8) 20 When excavating got ring of

this colour (6) 21 One round tree burning (2,4) 22 Skin removed in place of

concealment (7) 23 Prevents desert storm (6) 24 He pays up and stays (7)

DOWN

1 Inside information near the

bottom of the list? (3-4) 2 Lady soaring? (7) 3 Miserable — as mild can be

(6) 5 Jail mischievous child? No

sir — get back! (8) 6 Article among matter for printing concerns cover for throne (6) 7 Fibre affair (6) 13 Revelation as result of snap

decision? (8) 14 21 dieting (7) 15 Poetically upside down (7) 16 A member of the team but

not playing on the wing (6) 17 Immediate credit? (6) 19 It takes a pair for a ride (6)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Porterhouse; 9 Rod; 10 Blind date; 11 Sadie; 13 Itemise; 14 Mortar; 16 Stench; 18 Tickets; 19 Heron; 20 Overturns; 21 Bus; 22 Spirit-level.

Down: 2 Odd; 3 Table; 4 Raisin; 5 Oddment; 6 Stationer; 7 Presumption; 8 Telephonist; 12 Dirt cheap; 15 Abettor; 17 Esprit; 19 Haste; 21 Bye.