30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Proposition for balancing extremes by legal means? (3,2,8)

8 Scare one side in marshy

ground (8)

9 Visit about everyone (4) 10 100 go on stage with

American prickly plant (6) 12 The scope of the next

enterprise (6)

14 Initially the editor’s approach sets every reader a difficult problem (6) 16 Make great efforts in

making fast river craft (6) 18 A twinkling performer, no

doubt (4)

20 It is annoying and may

make a few weary (8) 22 What puts autocratic teachers among the aristocracy? (6,7)

DOWN

1 Legitimate target in

reasonable match? (4,4) 2 Fail to remember

counterfeit letter (6) 3 Not a complete role? (4) 4 Enthusiasm for being

sharp? (8)

5 Talisman taken from

mother by North Briton (6) 6 Transaction in wood (4) 11 Gets a try using different

tactics (8)

13 Month when revolutionary

mob never appears? (8) 15 Tories out in a raid (6)

17 Is planted among the others

to offer opposition (6) 19 Excursion visiting ancient

city (4)

21 List of names in revolution?

(4)