30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Flawless defence, yet speedily broken (5,7)

7. Takes a girl out some fruit (5)

8. Post and ante, perhaps (5)

9. One is confused for a long time (3)

10. Emphatically not at home! (3,3,3)

11. Small village made famous by Shakespeare (6)

12. Put into a grave position, because of a wrong note to a doctor? (6)

15. It knows no customs (4,5)

17. I have a fifty-fifty arrangement? Well, no! (3)

18. Composer of large variations (5)

19. Verbal criticism of the show (5)

21. Don't try to improve on a perfectly good water supply? (3,4,5)

DOWN

1. He works at intervals (5-7)

2. When small I need it (3)

3. They're worth something as groups (6)

4. A sound quality (9)

5. Time to muse (5)

6. Induced to become religious? (3,2,7)

7. Study I'm making of fabric (5)

10. Knock down and defeat (9)

13. Describes a branch of the peace movement (5)

14. A gunsmith adds it to his stock (6)

16. Unusual glee about a good golf score (5)

20. By way of a Roman road (3)