30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ship’s accommodation often associated

with logs! (6) 4 Showing off like lightning (6) 9 A view of the people (6,7) 10 Game indulged in by crooks (7) 11 One who wanted more doesn’t finish the

fruit (5) 12 First to get the gun ready (5) 14 A good man needs time to present the

show (5) 18 Constellation put back in Renoir oil-paint

ing (5) 19 Unfavourable advertisement lines (7) 21 A mean state that produces rows among

skinflints (13) 22 Sounds like a country man who moves

with speed (6) 23 This may involve many people in taking

the count (6)

DOWN

2 Rolling-stock for the toy railway? (4-9) 3 Is embodied in one horrible sound (5) 5 Made unconscious and given attention by

the undertaker! (4,3) 6 Directions to craftsmen? (7,6) 7 One dry concoction over there (6) 8 Health food! (5) 13 The fellow needs a particular time to pro

duce the order (7) 15 The woodworker is one who becomes a

member (6) 16 An Irish name for rice (5) 17 Celebrations of remarkable achievements

round the south (6) 20 Give expression to nothing in moral de

pravity (5)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Put on one side; 7 Fleet; 8 Clear; 9 Air; 10 Increases; 11 Estate; 12 Finish; 15 Israelite; 17 Fan; 18 Hydra; 19 Piper; 21 Keen interest.

Down: 1 Private fight; 2 Nee; 3 Notice; 4 Secretive; 5 Dregs; 6 Press hand-out; 7 First; 10 In the main; 13 Infer; 14 Nippon; 16 Ridge; 20 Pie.