30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

4. Fair game? (7)

8. Invest, but not in vest! (6)

9. Maintains a return pressure (7)

10. An expression of surprise in a legal document (6)

11. Big cuts she makes in fuel (6)

12. It’s taken at one’s leisure (8)

18. I leave the law to the big guns (8)

20. It’s nonsense to compel a number (6)

21. Crafty, like a well-stocked gallery? (6)

22. We can do with it! (7)

23. Sole man without a grave (6)

24. A number, for example, finishes the inscriptions (7)

DOWN

1. Give credit? (7)

2. Where there’s no bar for ship repairers? (3, 4)

3. Describes a sailor given a mission (6)

5. Reconciled to having had to give up work (8)

6. A mark of credit and comfort (6)

7. One eats it, as a matter of course (6)

13. Blend of tea, I sold apart from the rest (8)

14. Showed a sign of cold and contempt? (7)

15. A single way of making an impression (7)

16. Perfect voice for a trio? (6)

17. Develop part of a revolver (6)

19. Close, so ran up to a disturbance (6)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION Across: 1 Photo finish; 9 Lob; 10 Overreach; 11 Pages; 13 Lead off; 14 Fiends; 16 Review; 18 Genteel; 19 Anger; 20 Read aloud; 21 Ate; 22 Ready for bed. Down: 2 Hub; 3 Tools; 4 Feeble; 5 Narrate; 6 Shadowing; 7 Slip of a girl; 8 Shift-worker; 12 Greengage; 15 Die-hard; 17 All off; 19 Adder; 21 Ace.