Crossword

ACROSS

1. Thin stiff open-weaved kind of

muslin (8) 5. Egg-shaped (4) 8. Stand for reading the lesson in an

early Christian church (4) 9. Three-pronged spears (8) 10. Preparing hide for leather (7) 12. Particular part of space (5) 15. Residences (5) 16. Pieces of hair (7) 20. Bushy-tailed rodent (8) 21. At liberty (4) 22. Urges on (4) 23. One who boasts about (8)

DOWN

1. Device for heating bread (7) 2. Small brown red-breasted bird (5) 3. Person of great size and strength (5) 4. Small metal spike (4) 6. Old wine or car (7) 7. Cotton yarn (5) 11. Concepts (5) 12. Daily news journal (5) 13. German port on the River Elbe (7) 14. Most facile (7) 15. Urgency of movement (5) 17. Matilda for short (5) 18. Bellini opera (5) 19. Grasp suddenly (4)