30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 A backward work avers they

are renegades (9)

8 Number of opponents (3)

9 Ten play badly; objective is

score after foul (7,4)

11 Class initially on edge with

boy going red (7)

12 Early law giver covered

doctor’s two points (5)

13 Land to the south-west of

Paradise (6)

15 Entry which may attract

tax? (6)

17 Some gamblers go between

a walk and a trot (5)

18 One of the new ‘in’ crowd?

(7)

20 Player finds the exterior

remaining? (7,4)

22 Is drunk after going to

pot (3)

23 Held in esteem but gives

Edward the creeps badly (9)

DOWN

2 He didn’t quite make a verse-writer, but he wrote (3)

3 … of mystery, and imagination as let out (5) 4 Trifling with plaything and

mixed gin (6)

5 Quiet! Woman is out to get

exhibitionist! (7)

6 Minor illnesses will be prevalent in refrigeration plant (4,7)

7 Near trouble with perfume

coming into being again (9)

10 Spread rumour widely of row

overseas (5,6)

11 Save to act out (4,1,4)

14 Role, etc, of person in

polling (7)

16 Again, the spinster is careless

(6)

19 The topic of the month

emerging (5)

21 Daniel the writer debarred an

enemy (3)