QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Ponder (7)

5. Intends (5)

8. Alliterative series of words (6-7)

9. Timid (3)

10. Correct behaviour (9)

12. Went off (6)

13. Magician (6)

15. Being (9)

16. Consume (3)

18. Rainfall (13)

20. Follow (5)

21. Landscape (7) DOWN

1. Solemn ceremonies (5)

2. Underhand behaviour (5,8)

3. Gear (9)

4. Skin marking (6)

5. Me (Fr) (3)

6. Simultaneously (2,3,4,4)

7. Wandered (7)

11. Say again (9)

12. Spire (7)

14. Tomfoolery (6)

17. Spicy or sharp in taste (5)

19. Anger (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Duct 3. Spectrum 9. Warning

10. Under 11. Providential 13. Upsets 15. Friend 17. Congratulate

20. China 21. Incline 22. Besieged 23. Fens

Down 1. Downpour 2. Curio 4. Piglet 5. Counterpunch 6. Red tape

7. Mire 8. Disintegrate 12. Idleness 14. Stories 16. Famine 18. Alike

19. Scab