30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Justice characteristic of the Scandinavians (8)

5. Very keen to do a turn as a singer (4)

9. 50 amp. bulb? (4)

10. Lend a car out as something for daily use (8)

11. It’s sung in pleasantly rich surroundings (5)

12. Cow-catchers? (7)

13. They figure a great deal in population surveys (13)

18. Exit angrily, to destroy (5,3)

19. He’s on about being present (4)

20. Noise or disturbance can be wearing (7)

21. There’s space to travel in it (5)

22. Trifles – child’s play really (4)

23. Influence of a converted priest, for example (8)

DOWN

2. He studies make-up (7)

3. Create a fresh impression (7)

4. Hot-looking athlete or climber (7-6)

6. Huntress follows in a state (7)

7. Stops and takes into custody (7)

8. Decimal used in some tricky calculations (6)

13. His guilt is a possibility (7)

14. Perhaps to many a branch of medicine (7)

15. Harm one thousand and two (6)

16. People who do so get what’s coming to them (7)

17. Dealing with someone with a complaint (7)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION Across: 1 Record; 4 Spread; 9 Debt-collector; 10 Calls up; 11 Aired; 12 Light; 14 Relay; 18 Cream; 19 Incense; 21 Cheerlessness; 22 Attest; 23 Beaten.

Down: 1 Reduce; 2 Cobelligerent; 3 Races; 5 Prelate; 6 Entertainment; 7 Deride; 8 Slips; 13 Humerus; 15 Acacia; 16 Vices; 17 Reason; 20 Caste.