30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4. Present-day attitude about one kind of tissue (7)

8. A stretcher that’s left lying about (6)

9. How the horseman makes a street journey (7)

10. Innumerable forgotten relations are! (6)

11. The private soldier shows acrimony, we hear (6)

12. Ironmongery, and what it will stand, by the sound of it (8)

18. Wholesale slaughter - that’s a service measure (8)

20. Gas tube twisted round an insertion (6)

21. A talker - but he’s usually shut up! (6)

22. Endless mad rush created an impression (7)

23. He is third, but I am first (6)

24. Provide a new suit of clothes as compensation (7)

DOWN

1. More than one detective hustles all over the place (7)

2. Monumental figure having right physical height (7) 3 & 17 Dn. Appropriate implement a coward may use to strike a bird! (12)

5. I’d returned to emphasise the misfortune (8)

6. Closely studying Post Office telephone call (6)

7. Gloomy study to have a depressing effect (6)

13. The same term for electrical accessories (8)

14. She works at playtime (7)

15. Declining a musical adaptation (7)

16. Part of a period costume to create a commotion (6)

17. See 3 Down

19. They have a variety of means for going round the East (6)