CROSSWORD

ACROSS:

1. Popular card game (3,5) 5. Long poem (4) 8. Ashes holders (4) 9. Clashes (8) 10. Disturbs (7) 12. Worth, cost (5) 15 & 22. Altruistic deed (1,4,4) 16. Uncle Sam's country (7) 20. -------- tendon, the one connecting the heel with the calf muscles (8) 21. Lowest part of the wall of a

room (4) 22. See 15 across 23. Range between bass and

tenor (8)

DOWN:

1. Complain (7) 2. Group of nine in music (5) 3. Offricial keeping order in a

law court (5) 4. Bark (4) 6. Walks barefoot in shallow

water (7) 7. Any of the distinct hereditary

Hindu social classes (5) 11. Remove errors in a written

statement (5) 12. Style, fashion (5) 13. Member of a male religious

order, a monk (7) 14. Ear-shaped mollusc lined

with a mother-of-pearl (7) 15. Separately (5) 17. Avaricious person (5) 18. A Rocky Mountain state (7) 19. Thick flat block (4)