40-minute puzzle

Press, 30 December 1978, Page 7

40-minute puzzle

Across 4 — Shrewd like blast of a horn, we hear. (6) 8— Flourish you’d expect of a musician. (7) 10— Hush! stroll or walk unsteadily. (7) 11— Those can form the moral significance. (5) 12 — Turn outwards in the vertical sense. (5) 13— He natters all over the place — portends evil. (9) 16— Smash quickly — and have a meal. (9) 19— Letter first in Greek — with wager it’s all ours. (5) 20— Does effect of sunshine disappear in this dance? (5) 22— Slam ten about for cloaks. (7) 23— Being full like an unruly meeting. (7) 24 — Steers all over the place, then puts in position again. (6) Down 1— Thing to be opposed to? (6) 2— Wash — in this. (4) 3— East European dancers in confusion as bullets rain. (7, 6) 5— Mite ate skeins all over the place — little puss! (7, 6) 6— A rum bell can make a portable shelter. (8) 7— Select with a difference — that’s what a voter does when he does this. (6) 9— Something not to be overheard — but we hear a team. (5) 14— Ponder steamship in motion; it reacts. (8) 15— Harm me, knocked around with this? (6) 17— Be — sounding like a former sort of person. (5) 18— Whiplashes, or lays with a lisp, we hear. (6) 21— Hold fast a small spike. (4)