30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tax too heavily what bowlers deliver on the railway? (10) 7 Tries out manufacturing concerns in the river (5) 8 Formerly enough for a model (7) 10 Wild rank deed cast a cloud over things (8) 11 Bound to have finished with scores level (4) 13 Transfix one politician with beer (6) 15 Summoned to make an offer to study (6) 17 Oriental affirmative made amorously? (4) 18 Sack the team by the hearth? (8) 21 Narrow main road? (3-4) 22 Children emerge (5) 23 Tempter and division (10)

DOWN

1 Proper state of command (5) 2 Set upset in early wind (8) 3 We send out to the country (6) 4 Bring up the last section (4) 5 Insinuated the mischievous child wasn’t truthful (7) 6 Compassion of sorts about rows (10) 9 Put in peril and finish up being made cross (10) 12 Not one’s main job — is in touch over it (8) 14 Get ready to trim the edges beforehand (7) 16 Control credit perhaps (6) 19 Twisted net is something put in (5) 20 An old convict gets up a fete (4)