QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Strikingly attractive (3-8)

8. Copy of an original (7)

9. Leg bone (5)

10. Prison room (4)

11. Succinct (7)

12. Female deer (3)

13. Centre (4)

15. Remove (4)

17. Purchase (3)

19. Former (7)

20. Naked (4)

23. Nothing (colloq) (5)

24. Imprecise (7)

25. Culprit (11) DOWN

1. Make wealthy (6)

2. Cast out (5)

3. Enthusiastic (4)

4. Opportunity (6)

5. Time without end (8)

6. Device to attract publicity (7)

7. Desolate (6)

12. Decode (8)

14. Partially cover (7)

16. Bloodsucking pest (colloq) (6)

17. Adjacent (6)

18. Persistently annoy (6)

21. Separate (5)

22. Costly (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 6. Noises 7. Coward 10. Obscene

11. Lives 12. Eons 13. Fairy 16. Delay 17. Mole 20. Alone 21. Lighter

22. Summit 23. Defect

Down 1. Infomercials 2. Dissent 3. Melee 4. Forlorn 5. Halve

8. Disintegrate 9. Reparable 14. Genesis 15. Bootleg 18. Roams

19. Agree