QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Takes unlawfully (4)

3. Trade (8)

9. Move of exaggerated impatience (7)

10. Maxim (5)

11. Belated consideration (12)

14. Catch (3)

16. Walk with affected nicety

(5)

17. Misdeed (3)

18. Occurring together (12)

21. Principle (5)

22. Customers (7)

23. Consecration (8)

24. Not so much (4)

DOWN

1. Resists (8)

2. Encourage (5)

4. Raw material (3)

5. Calculations (12)

6. Arrives at (7)

7. Looked at (4)

8. Implicates (12)

12. Indian language (5)

13. Detailed examination (8)

15. Soundly defeat (7)

19. Store of delightful things (5)

20. Butt (4)

22. Hold down (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 7. Chapel 8. Docile 10. Intense

11. Bulge 12. Seek 13. Poser 17. Tease 18. Fade 22. Plain 23. Statute

24. Diadem 25. Delays

Down 1. Eclipse 2. Partner 3. Penny 4. Cobbler 5. Filly 6. Rebel

9. Repossess 14. Meander 15. Natural 16. Reverse 19. Spade

20. Pagan 21. Dared