Sunday Star-Times

CRYPTIC QUICK

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ACROSS

1. Be concerned about gold in a twisted way (5)

4. Scornful satire as to mass car production (7)

8. Urge one to give me lip about it (5)

9. A further edition of Pinter could be about right (7)

10. An old uncle taking me back to the end of the line (3)

11. Expulsion from society, and am cross about it being made (9)

12. Whip a hair from the lid (4)

13. One who takes drugs is sure to be upset (4)

18. Food might turn out to rend it thus (9)

20. It is like starting horticultu­re with a single tree (3)

21. The sort of rayon, etc, a tea can provide (7)

22. Titan indicates mountain range shown in it (5)

23. Still re-assembled a lattice-work structure (7)

24. Cries of rage start harming the birds (5)

DOWN 1.

more trouble than it’s worth (5,8)

2. Engineers get the newspapers to keep under (7)

Across

1. Educationa­l institute (6)

4. Lunge (6)

9. Reside (5)

10. Eccentric (7)

11. Nonsense (7)

13. Leave out (4)

14. Contest (11)

17. Girdle (4)

18. Advise (7)

21. Pharmacy (inf) (7)

22. Excessive (5)

24. Spin (6)

25. Scrounge (6)

3. Cowardly way to cry, now leader is lost (6)

4. The sponsor’s role is to try use of it (6)

5. Cancel the law a leper was able to break (6)

6. Why one wasn’t criminally involved with one breaking bail (5)

7. Change of shape in moor: shape mist can produce (13)

Down

1. Staid (6)

2. Garden tool (3)

3. Greased (5)

5. Lair (7)

6. Agreed by all (9)

7. Plough (4)

8. Tame (11)

12. Reparation (9)

15. Nationalis­t (7)

16. Sheep’s pelt (6)

19. Customary (5)

20. Mark of injury (4)

23. Father (3)

14. A bird one can get into one’s stomach (7)

15. Remember everything after having lost half the recipe (6)

16. They do nothing if doctor lies about them (6)

17. The spit and the hob car is used for (6)

19. Too fat to ring, bees might be (5)

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