10-MINUTE QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Stormy (11)

9. Spite (7)

10. Sword (5)

11. Ingenuous (5)

12. Fascinate (7)

13. Flippancy (6)

15. Receive (6)

18. Slaughter (7)

20. Circuit (5)

22. Sound (5)

23. Ban (7)

24. By law (11)

DOWN

2. Boredom (5)

3. Defend (7)

4. Vein (6)

5. Disturb (5)

6. Offence (7)

7. Clear (11)

8. Indigence (11)

14. Judgment (7)

16. Room (7)

17. Iterate (6)

19. Expert (5)

21. Precious stone (5)

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

Across: 1 Prestige; 5 Pass; 9 Pomp; 10 Aviation; 11 Stoop; 12 Notable; 13

Grotesqueness; 18 Ironical; 19 Rage; 20 Florist; 21 Queer; 22 Lose; 23 Property. Down: 2 Rooster; 3 Support; 4 Give no quarter; 6 Amiable; 7 Sinless; 8 Rattle; 13 Gainful; 14 Odorous; 15 Elicit; 16 Nurture; 17 Suggest.

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Black bird departs flock (5) 4 Clubs: golfer's one

mistakenly dropped (7) 8 Sew tear ruining garment

(7)

9 Tense situation in play (5) 10 Marianne's appalling

language (8)

12 Bank in quarrel yields (4) 14 Lecturer worried to make

contribution (6)

15 Say Harry Potter is jolly

good! (6)

18 Fortieth curry for

Cockneys? (4) 19 Chillier setting for a new

kitchen vessel (8)

21 Knight piercing heart: that's

deliberate (5)

22 Song about endless

division in state (7) 24 Sport for which one takes

a bow? (7)

25 Crime article with business

paper (5)

DOWN

1 Something chewed

includes famous sauce (7) 2 Duke in Old English poem

(3)

3 Greek character observed

pulling back trigger (8)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Multitude (5)

4 Blunder (7)

8 Pullover (7)

9 Theatrical work (5) 10 Yerevan native (8) 12 Depend (4)

14 Give to charity (6) 15 Sorcerer (6)

18 Precious stone (4)

19 Sieve (8)

21 Intended (5)

22 Grand Canyon location (7) 24 Shooting arrows (7) 25 Robbery (5)

DOWN

1 Dessert accompaniment (7) 2 Verse form (3)