SMALL CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wide outlook (8)

8 Communication with God (6)

9 Smack (4)

10 Sealed container (3)

11 Utterly quiet (6)

13 Mineral oil (9)

15 Ingenious (6)

17 Alcoholic spirit (3)

18 Songbird (4)

19 Themes (6)

20 Very bad or incompetent (8)

DOWN

1 Sports asp (anag.) (9)

2 Alleviation (6)

3 Egg-shaped (4)

4 Declare formally or officially (9)

5 Direction (4)

6 Repeated sequence of

events (5)

7 Decorative objects (9)

12 Measuring sticks (6)

14 Musical speed (5)

15 Miss out (4)

16 Source of wood (4) Solution tomorrow

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