QUICK CROSSWORD

Across

1 Metonym for the prime

minister’s office (7,6) 8 Saying (7)

9 Countrified (5) 10 Playing card (4) 11 Knowing nothing (8) 13 Ship’s boat (6) 14 Total catastrophe (6) 17 Calming with drugs

(8)

19,21,22 Charlemagne

was the first (4,5,7) 24 Subatomic particle — let hencoop rot (anag) (13) Down

1 Sudden sharp decrease in quantity (3)

2 Print made from an

engraved block (7) 3 Whole individual unit (4) 4 Devour (6)

5 Yellow aromatic powder used in cooking (8)

6 High-altitude

habitation (5)

7 Lie (4,5) 10 Sportsmen’s

underwear (9) 12 Entered (4,4) 15 Abrasive cleaner (7) 16 Author of A Dance to the Music of Time, d. 2000 (6)

18 Stupid person (5) 20 Detailed description of design criteria (abbr) (4) 23 Discharge (3)