QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Playground items (7) 5 Sail support (4) 7 Concealed microphone (3) 8 American state (8) 9 Leg part (5) 10 Noble gas (4) 13 Move the hand as a greeting (4) 14 Great delight (4) 18 Unmannered (4) 19 Hairdresser’s shop (5) 21 Incendiary (8) 22 Perish (3) 23 _ _ _ _ Bunton, singer (4) 24 Runs at top speed (7)

DOWN

1 Deliberate destruction (8) 2 Small hourglass used in cooking (3,5) 3 Burning (6) 4 Utterly quiet (6) 5 Small slender fish (6) 6 Top layer of land (4) 11 Constituting a certainty (6-2) 12 Flows windingly (8) 15 I have found it! (6) 16 Brave men (6) 17 Line on a weather map (6) 20 Rigid or solid (4)