Crossword

ACROSS

1. Suggestive of evil (8) 5. Is in debt (4) 8. Small round spots (4) 9. Proof (8) 10. Blocking out of the sun (7) 12. Change (5) 15. Aesop's lesson (5) 16. Large jug (7) 20. Suddenly lifted (8) 21. Greedy (4) 22. Song for one (4) 23. Calculated (8)

DOWN

1. Melancholia (7) 2. To do with birth (5) 3. Tall perennial plants (5) 4. Strap held by a horse rider (4) 6. Victors (7) 7. Horse (5) 11. Person who is taught by a teacher (5) 12. Separately (5) 13. Favouring one side more than another (7) 14. Laughed at someone with scorn (7) 15. Long upright poles for flags (5) 17. Containing iodine in chemical combination

(5) 18. New -----, Connecticut (5) 19. Make something black by burning (4)