Business Day

10-MINUTE QUICK CROSSWORD

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1 Tone down (6) 4 Opening move

(6)

9 Changing

radically (13) 10 Outstandin­g (7) 11 Foreign (5) 12 Dismay (5) 14 Misanthrop­e (5) 18 Bit (5) 19 Immediate (7) 21 Commanding

(13) 22 Honeyed (6) 23 Handsome

young man (6) 1 Unsocial (6) 2 Evolutiona­ry

(13)

3 Untrue (5) 5 Irregulari­ty (7) 6 making blessed

(13)

7 Irksome (6) 8 Condition (5) 13 Fearful (7) 15 Ascending (6) 16 Polite (5) 17 Greek capital (6) 20 Hold good (5)

1 Psychologi­st; 7 Tepid; 8 Loner; 9 Use; 10 Seediness; 11 Entomb; 12 Manner; 15 Appellant; 17 Top; 18 Chain; 19 Dutch; 21 Interrupti­on.

1 Protuberan­ce; 2 Hip; 3 Ladder; 4 Gallivant; 5 Since; 6 Prescripti­on; 7 Treat; 10 Semblance; 13 Notch; 14 Wander; 16 Plain; 20 Tip. 1 Like the group gaining

benefit (5)

4 Warship liable to be

quarantine­d? (7)

8 On the subject of letting

contract, free! (7)

9 Second after-dinner drink

for a good loser perhaps (5) 10 Head spread? (4) 11 Profession­al reportedly shot

off-target, and swore (8) 14 Mischievou­s child approaches river that’s not clean (6)

15 Emergency credit is

doubled (6)

18 Rose heard going to

American and Asian

city (8)

20 Principle, first missed by word

of mouth (4)

22 Magi's mysterious letter in

Greek (5)

23 Held up among guava, must

assume it's a fruit! (7) 24 Old-timer casting a shadow (7) 25 Pour oil over unfortunat­e

beast (5) 1 Poor Aphrodite wasted

away (9)

2 Pulpit's redesigned for

divorce (5,2)

3 Up to now a frog-like

creature (4)

4 Weep about her sort of

brandy (6)

5 Plant two women joined (8) 1 Advantage (5)

4 Airline or goods conveyor (7) 8 Deliveranc­e (7)

9 Active leisure pursuit (5) 10 Crown of the head (4) 11 Assured (8)

14 Adulterate­d (6)

15 Crucial time (6)

18 Ancient Syrian city (8)

20 By mouth (4)

22 18th Greek letter (5) 23 Citrus fruit slightly smaller

than an orange (7)

24 Device that tells the time by

shadows (7)

25 Cover in fat before and

during cooking (5) 1 Wasted away (9) 2 Divided into a number of

portions (5,2) 3 Amphibian (4)

4 Fruit with a morello

variety (6)

5 Fragrant shrub used as a

herb (8)

6 Chains, fetters (5) 7 Large rodent (3)

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