CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS

6 Supposed alien spaceship (6,6) 8 Spite (7) 9 Big (5) 10 Meshes (4) 12 Luxurious fabric (6) 14 Intense beam of light (5) 15 Morally bad (6) 16 Competent (4) 19 Person giving blood (5) 21 Medium (7) 22 When looking back on the past (2,10)

DOWN

1 Having a mesmerising effect (8) 2 Bar of gold (5) 3 Operators (5) 4 One who constructs houses (7) 5 Beloved (4) 6 Everywhere (3,3,4) 7 Colonisation (10) 11 Unhappy (3) 12 Anger, annoy (3) 13 Shakes or judders (8) 14 Erudite, deeply read (7) 17 Hirsute (5) 18 Stop (5) 20 Religious sisters (4)