30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Inferior speed of minute

division (6,4) 7 Partly chaperoned former South

American dictator (5) 8 Round the South we have proper

ancestry (7) 10 I am certainly shown to be

better (8) 11 Chief actor returns animals (4) 13 Initially good accommodation for

stable men (6) 15 Affront beyond the limit? (6) 17 Coming back, came across one

detail (4) 18 Worker at the front has stroke in

game (8) 21 A hint during the night before makes him go elsewhere for safety (7) 22 Among the lava, I locate something to be of use (5) 23 He mauls the oldest man (10)

DOWN

1 With a narrow band, fasten up the

components (5) 2 100 on French river are in the

soup (8) 3 Showed agreement to be strange

in the end, strangely enough (6) 4 Spots because lacking in

caution? (4) 5 One doesn’t expect people to

play here when it’s operating (7) 6 When things go up by leaps and

bounds? (10) 9 It’s lie that a deserter is up to

swindle (10) 12 It turns out that everybody had

precedence (5,3) 14 Do a cutting job in 5 (7) 16 Conceals 600 balls in the

field? (6) 19 A laundry flooded (5) 20 It would be cruel to give her

less (4)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 6 Concord; 7 Rebut; 9 Sea; 10 Relations; 12 Testing time; 15 Trout stream; 17 Raingauge; 19 For; 21 Deans; 22 Officer.

Down: 1 Copes; 2 Ice; 3 Free; 4 Registrar; 5 Surname; 8 Tanner; 11 Returning; 13 Tasman; 14 Breaker; 16 Power; 18 Gift; 20 Bid.