30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Paints the standards (7) 7 Puts one’s name down for

tokens (5)

9 See 20 Down

10 See 19 Across

12 Protracted torture the old

lag may be in for! (4,7) 15 Layers put in cells (7,4) 17 Friend with a place to put

the food - and it’s tasty (9) 19 and 10Ac Publican who supplies no drinks, but demands payment (3-9) 21 Pick up bits of information

from a different angle (5) 22 and 5Dn. Not losing contact with what the regular correspondent is doing (7,2,5)

DOWN

1 See 20 Down

2 You need a crate to

perform in the ring (3) 3 River that featured in the

war noticeably (4) 4 Criminal producing

shocking scare in moneymaking

establishment (9) 5 See 22 Across

8 Keep tight hold of the eggs

(6)

11 Life-like drawing of a beam

in the doorway (9) 13 English composer of

Teutonic origin? (6)

14 How a corpulent brotherin-arms is wounded? (7) 16 Election victories from

Georgia in the south (5) 18 Schubert composition incorporated in “Nellie Dean” (4)

20, 9Ac and 1Dn. Fluctuating fortunes experienced by the lift operator! (3,3,5)