EASY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Small French restaurant 4. Wreckage, ruins

8. Dry up or wither 10. Throw out of school 11. Proprietor

12. Live-in mother’s helper (2,4)

13. Admire greatly, hold in high … 15. South American mammal 19. Jewellery held with a pin 21. Direction of the Arctic Circle 24. Bulb-like vegetable 25. Large knife used by butchers

26. Grow or intensify, his feelings will … 27. Tight-fisted, mean

DOWN

1. Custom-made, … tailoring 2. Warning horn 3. Backwards, in … order 5. Ogle (3,2)

6. Exact copy 7. Seasonings,

… and pepper 9. Centre of a pencil 14. White ant 16. Merciful, impose a … sentence 17. Smoker’s receptacle 18. Elegant, stylish 20. Snow leopard 22. Large black bird 23. Shallow place across a river