CRYPTICCROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Cut 7 with 1 for a change (4) 8 I am to have a job? That’s an unreasonable demand! (10) 9 Brief era of scarcity (8) 10 Harvest of more appropriate crops (4) 12 Wear out profane oaths as weapons (6) 14 Runner going in bus to London (6) 15 Strips of wood suitable for making vestas (6) 17 The gambler is cured? (6) 18 In nothing flimsy (4) 19 No, I’d rise to ridicule (8) 21 Very small volume needed for meeting records (6-4) 22 Little Edward in a whirl in the water (4)

DOWN

2 Indicator of the guards’ darkest hour? (5,5) 3 Something to eat right on the jetty (4) 4 Horrifies father getting up before friends (6) 5 Property arranged in complete groups (6) 6 Begin as ace tipster? (5,3) 7 What one gets from a badtempered photographer? (4) 11 Honourably open but incomprehensible to directors (5-5) 13 Use van or become very hungry (8) 16 Very wet turf on lair (6) 17 Handcart featured in quarrel in pub? (6) 18 The book is apparently coming my way (4) 20 Benefit from Japanese drink (4)