30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4 Make progress on borrowed

money (7) 8 He may well appeal to the

public (6) 9 A name is confused —

memory’s at fault (7) 10 I’d return after time to

explain more fully (6) 11 It may go down well, but one

dies to kick it (6) 12 Put a ban on spirits (8) 18 Permit — strange to relate

(8) 20 What a snake may do to

make one nervous (6) 21 Attacks one in the streets (6) 22 They are pressed to entertain (7) 23 Cuts the end off fruits (6) 24 Turns up and listens (7)

DOWN

1 Handles with care (7) 2 Bitterness associated with

an age old craft (7) 3 There should be rhyme, if not reason, in such justice (6) 5 It may be used by a boxer without a ring apparently (4-4) 6 A representative business

(6) 7 The number increases in

emergencies (6) 13 Fiance was set upon (8) 14 Getting in range, perhaps (7) 15 Priests get organised and

keep trying (7) 16 Money-making facility (6) 17 One of eight requires

medical attention (6) 19 Not a bit of it! (6)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Nightingale; 9 Ass; 10 Will-power; 11 Infer; 13 Toilers; 14 Slight; 16 Assume; 18 Unhorse; 19 Tenet; 20 Refuse tip; 21 Don; 22 Clothes-pegs.

Down: 2 Its; 3 Hewer; 4 Inlets; 5 Gypsies; 6 Low return; 7 Magic square; 8 Prospecting; 12 Frightful; 15 Hard set; 17 Settle; 19 Top up; 21 Dog.