30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bent I’d become with bankruptcy threatening (2,4) 4 Be obstructive about a picnic-basket? (6) 9 Support another view? (6,7) 10 The colt she turned out provides coverings (7) 11 Strengthen two of a kind (5) 12 Disguise for the 100 left (5) 14 She is in the lending business

(5) 18 Send timer back (5) 19 Bird finds tin on untidy pile

(7) 21 It’s stories and discourses

(13) 22 Marked right, but rebuked for being wrong when taking off (6) 23 Cured by the beer he’d taken in (6)

DOWN

1 Creature as member of religious body (6) 2 If he had patients, they would presumably be noted (6,2,5) 3 Magistrates to be sat on?

(5) 5 Can I be good-tempered?

(7) 6 Where the ordinary soldier

learns? (7,6) 7 Make a translation of word

with final ‘r’ (6) 8 Lift up one in a crowd (5) 13 As far as one can go to meet

Rex (7) 15 Direct acknowledgement (6) 16 Rash places (5) 17 Not accustomed to not being employed (6) 20 A measure of the petrol it

requires (5)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Below average; 7 Donor; 8 Drama; 9 Nun; 10 Silencers; 11 Useful; 12 Pirate; 15 Go-between; 17 Apt; 18 Osier; 19 Snack; 21 Address books.

Down: 1 Brain surgeon; 2 Won; 3 Virile; 4 Red Indian; 5 Grace; 6 Mass meetings; 7 Dense; 10 Stutterer; 13 Aback; 14 Census; 16 Blind; 20 Alb.