Crossword 2592

ACROSS

2 Early Education Care (3) 4 Taken for granted; implicit (5) 7 Deed (3)

8 A highly spiced stew of various meats and vegetables (4) 9 A sub-machine of Israeli design (3)

10 Daughter of one’s sibling ( 5) 11 Potential Yield Index (3) 13 Get the show on the road (8) 14 Largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (5)

16 Ridges of rock, coral or sand near the surface of the sea (5) 18 Better than is expected (5,3) 19 A shell that fails to explode (3) 21 A group of nine musicians 5) 22 Take someone to court (3) 23 Relating to a aeronautics (4) 24 Devotee (3)

25 Whirl, pivot (5)

26 Kernel, seed (3)

DOWN

1 Catch one’s breath with an open mouth (4)

2 A small ornamental case for holding articles such as needles (4,) 3 Accidental (12)

4 Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist (4,8)

5 To remove guilt from, purge (7)

6 The subject of a talk or piece of writing (5)

12 The person or people being addressed (3)

15 Branch of the Girl Guides for girls aged six to eight years (7) 17 Short for influenza (3) 18 Spiro _, first US vice president to resign in 1973 for taking bribes (5)

19 Nimble (4)

20 Refute (4)