Crossword

Across

1. African country, east of

Botswana (8) 5. Adventure story (4) 8. Bitter-juiced plant (4) 9. Disordered (8) 10. Use too much (7) 12. Occurrence (5) 15. Drive away (5) 16. West Indian island (7) 20. Loneliness (8) 21. Chess castle (4) 22. Appear to be (4) 23. Of various species (8)

Down

1. Dedicated (7) 2. North American elk (5) 3. Foretells (5) 4. Gain (4) 6. Fishermen (7) 7. Inspection of accounts (5) 11. Habitual (5) 12. A genus of shrubby plants, many of them

producing beautiful flowers (5) 13. Instinct (7) 14. Fractured (7) 15. Flowers (5) 17. Sandbanks (5) 18. Regarding (5) 19. The cougar (4)