30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bird unpopular with sailors?

(11) 9 Bottom, for example, of a

ship (3) 10 What an executor has?

(4-5) 11 What could be finer to conclude? (5) 13 Workers from Estoril (7) 14 Trivial cause of offence (6) 16 Suppose it means adopt (6) 18 Unseat one with a rush, perhaps (7) 19 Not an irreversible belief (5) 20 Decline to accept some advice — it’s a lot of rubbish (6,3) 21 Assume he’s from university

(3) 22 Clippers of the line? (7-4)

DOWN

2 Possessed by some object

(3) 3 Where the lumberjack is

disturbed (5) 4 Listen out for bays (6) 5 They have no settled

occupation (7) 6 Do meteorologists gain little

by forecasting it? (3,6) 7 Whichever way you look at it, it adds up to the same (5,6) 8 Looking for golden opportunities? (11) 12 Bad enough to cause alarm

(9) 15 Unyielding and difficult games on the tennis court (4,3) 17 Decide to stay (6) 19 Maintain a high level (3,2) 21 Follow some sort of lead (3)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 6 Compass; 7 Japan; 9 Denim; 10 Artiste; 12 New Year’s Day; 14 Genealogist; 18 Present; 19 Posed; 21 Babel; 22 General.

Down: 1 Bored; 2 Sprite; 3 Ash; 4 Varies; 5 Partial; 8 Arrange; 11 Cyclone; 13 Hearsay; 15 Easter; 16 Stores; 17 Began; 20 Pet.