QUICK CROSSWORD

Answers next week.

ACROSS

8 ––– key, spanner used with flat-pack furniture (5) 9 Eyelash make-up (7) 10 Relating to a holy book (8) 11 Yellowish-green fruit (4) 13 Side of bacon (6) 15 Full of desire and enthusiasm (5) 17 Fury (5) 18 Permanent design on the skin (6) 21 Solid white grease (4) 22 Regarded with respect (8) 25 Tire out (7) 26 Appetising (5)

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1 Household waste (7) 2 Spill the beans (4) 3 Remedies for poisons (9) 4 Blot, daub (5) 5 New York’s country (inits)(3) 6 Roadside footpath (8) 7 Egypt’s capital (5) 12 Idle people (9) 14 Country with a king or queen (8) 16 Word of farewell (7) 19 Narrow street (5) 20 Slogan (5) 23 Lots of red spots (4) 24 Apply friction to (3)