30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Having got too much of what is a tedious business (5)

4 Hasten progress to benefit

of part of hospital (7)

8 Can I be friendly? (7) 9 Child has one in farm

building (5)

10 Dislocation of a leg in strong

wind (4)

11 or of toes when weary of

walking (8)

13 Players getting half-rate in

the morning (4)

14 Second part of the

triumphal festivities (4) 16 Landlord sees crowd from

pit (4,4)

17 Money to be paid directly to

Spanish leader (4)

20 This 14 is one (5)

21 The object of the East in

rousing feelings (7) 22 Twisted threads for (4-3) 23 Firm oil-platform I had got

on (5)

DOWN

1 Game in which the score is

insulting? (8,5)

2 Suffering in court? (5)

3 Lightly touches fish (4)

4 Wire or muscle (6)

5 Object of ridicule in genuine

refutation (8)

6 Small discount is somewhat

unfair (1,3,3)

7 Bad end surgeon could come

to from road hazard (9,4) 12 Has slept without any tracks

being left (8)

13 City of granite (7)

15 Climb like money (6) 18 Availing oneself of apparatus

in general (5)

19 There’s nothing in the drinkingplace but an animal (4)