30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 Could beating it lead to

deafness? (3-4) 7 Semi-nude, shy stool

pigeon (5)

9 It’s not harvested in the

wood of course (5)

10 How wide is loaf with the

end cut off? (7)

12 Firmly resolved to get

things moving (3,2,6) 14 Repeatedly somersaulting

(4,3,4)

18 It is put into sauce for meat

in all seriousness (7) 19 Virginia in row involving

couch (5)

21 Traded in timber, teak

initially (5)

22 Interviewed 1,000 taken

sick at timber-works (3-4)

DOWN

1 Pester Henry (5)

2 I saved counsel (6) 3 and 20Dn Special headgear for unusual haunts (3-3)

4 Again taking earlier

meal (6)

5 Support for bridge or some

card game (7)

8 100 on edge over boy

going red (7)

11 Tidying noble bearing (7) 13 Affirm Edward prevented

(7)

15 Rebellion about

electromotive force (6) 16 Puzzle in game (6)

17 Being virile, goes to the

Netherlands in a month (5) 20 See 3 Down