30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Constrictor gets right

animal (4)

8 Use a quince, the only

example of its kind (6,4) 9 Tolerate Irishman and

refuse to change (5,3) 10 Neat substitution of dunderhead for learner in 7 (4)

12 Hot stuff very quietly

swallowed by aristocrat (6) 14 Fears losing head — makes

mistakes (6)

15 Very unusual exit (3-3) 17 Collision causes one politician to do something (6)

18 Leave out big metal

container for rubbish (4) 19 Monocle used to look at

tumbler? (8)

21 Dilutes wine for rowing, for

example (5,5) 22 Instrument featured on

rhinoceros (4)

DOWN

2 Having made a start, but

not on target (3,3,4) 3 Destruction of one in

unbroken succession (4) 4 Cured fish having a sleep?

(6)

5 One will capsize if one

turns it (6)

6 A fall for detectives is

sweet! (4,4)

7 One side went away (4) 11 He makes prediction of return on rebuilt terraces (10)

13 Does he make the cast

quicker to act? (8) 16 Twice set about fly (6)

17 A chilling reception is only

to be expected here (3-3) 18 All four points irregularly

stitched (4)

20 Thin strip of wood produced by turning machine without end (4)