QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stop or slow car (5)

4 Pose (3)

6 Spike (wheat) (3)

8 Test (match) (13)

9 Cogitate (5)

11 Departed (4)

13 Welsh emblems (5)

14 French river (5)

15 Pulped food (5) 16 Prig (4)

18 Hate (5)

21 Fear of spiders (13)

23 Desire (for) (3)

24 Free (3)

25 Autocratic (5)

DOWN

1 Of a wedding (6)

2 Social insects (4)

3 Wading bird (5)

4 E.g. Baltic (3) 5 Dribble (7)

6 Nineties (anag.) (8)

7 Banks (on) (6)

10 Hibernian (5)

12 Give advance notice (8)

14 Animal hide (7)

15 Plagiarism (6)

17 Base-2 system (6)

19 Alcohol clinic (5)

20 Wanes (4)

22 Aged (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

ACROSS:

1. Sole

4. Mew

6. Sick (Soul music)

8. Bodega

9. Regina

10. Brandish

11. Tusk

12. Philosophical

17. Grow

19. Adjutant

22. Jovial

23. Mouldy

24. Arid

25. Way

26. Even.

DOWN:

2. Odour

3. Eternal

4. Miami

5. Worship

6. Sight

7. Canasta

10. Bap

13. Harbour

14. Swallow

15. Intrude

16. Let

18. Weird

20. Jumpy

21. Nudge.