30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A blow that isn’t felt

directly (9) 8 A number returning with

duck eggs (3) 9 Diesels can’t get rid of surplus energy like this (3,3,5) 11 Its quarters are hardly

spotless (7) 12 Give guidance on the ranch

(5) 13 Measures a broken biscuit

I left (6) 15 Bedlam sought by a refugee

(6) 17 Revolutionary type of

linen (5) 18 A recent reform put through

again (2-5) 20 It won’t strike unless the

conditions are right (6,5) 22 Allow the tenant to move

in (3) 23 This means the end of one’s

best suit (4,5)

DOWN

2 Kind of bread found in every

East German home (3) 3 If so, a change will be capital

(5) 4 On the team, but not as a

winger? (6) 5 Gets ready to eat, or to be

eaten (7) 6 From the French, as it should

be (5,2,4) 7 By no means a long way off

something (3,4,2) 10 They perform extensively on

a sliding scale (11) 11 Telephone order for supplies

from the pub? (5,4) 14 Musical fun with a lute

perhaps (7) 16 Cases that may be looked

into (6) 19 Worker encountered me

coming up first (5) 21 Part of a wheel that projects

about a centimetre (3)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 7 Damson; 8 Rococo; 10 Air-mail; 11 Timid; 12 Cock; 13 Scene; 17 Heady; 18 Call; 22 Light; 23 Tacking; 24 Menace; 25 Nettle.

Down: 1 Advance; 2 Embrace; 3 Loyal; 4 Routine; 5 Dogma; 6 Horde; 9 Elucidate; 14 Lettuce; 15 Lariats; 16 Aligned; 19 Plums; 20 Agent; 21 Acted.