30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. Foreign affairs? (6)

8. Plan to expend (3,3)

10. Scholastic lizard? (7)

11. Risk having a dog at home (5)

12. Wild West dish of meat and vegetables (4)

13. I defy changes in worship (5)

17. Let a number have comfort (5)

18. Atmosphere in which Laura loses her head (4)

22. I have timber that’s perfect (5)

23. So churlish it makes Bill red (3-4)

24. Stress it’s money on account (6)

25. Bet he’s in command (6)

DOWN

1. He says our future is in our own hands (7)

2. Such remarks may still be blunt! (7)

3. Silently put into words (5)

4. Stays if made content (7)

5. One way to score (5)

6. Magazine for some of us to

read (5)

9. Currently at liberty! (4,2,3)

14. Most effective way of using information (7)

15. Skin specialist (7)

16. Fellow with an appointment and a command (7)

19. I ring up about a shrub (5)

20. Fish rod (5)

21. The usual object of retirement (5)