30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
4 Trap cuts the spaniel’s tail
off (7) 8 & 15Dn Go into a professional examination, but submit an objection (5,1,7) 9 Using an extinguisher and
quenching one’s thirst (7) 10 This provides transport for
the burial-place (6) 11 Bigger fiddles cultivated by
nurserymen! (6) 12 Opposite to what talkative
people do? (8) 18 Could he be described as
self-willed? (8) 20 Open the subject of a piece
of jewellery, we hear (6) 21 Flexible plan gets involved
with it (6) 22 One whose livelihood
depends on commission? (7) 23 Comes to port where sailors
sleep (6) 24 He doesn’t believe this tea is
blended! (7)
1 Locked spine produces a
relapse (3-4) 2 Peering at article wrapped
round with cord (7) 3 Go over broken rut (6) 5 Conferences at which a friend makes a declaration (8) 6 May contain blue fluid, but it
has changed to pink (3-3) 7 Kindly angel moving around
one (6) 13 Showing no mercy in describing incomplete Old Testament (8) 14 Hardships affect artists (7) 15 See 8 Across 16 Public relations officer gets
suitable gain (6) 17 Man in charge inside shows
spite (6) 19 This is used for guiding the
ploughman (6)