QUICK CROSSWORD

No. 9284

ACROSS

3. Collision (5)

8. Wooden shoe (5)

10. To woo (5)

11. Groove (3)

12. Small Eurasian mammal (5)

13. Apart from (7)

15. Royal (5)

18. Animal doctor (3)

19. Mislead, beguile (6)

21. Resembling a tooth (7)

22. --- Redding, singer (4)

23. Opposite of false (4)

24. Gymnast’s costume (7)

26. Declares formally (6)

29. Anger (3)

31. Desert’s fertile spot (5)

32. Finds (7)

34. Compare (5)

35. Weep (3)

36. Short saying (5)

37. Strength (5)

38. Shoot from cover (5)

DOWN

1. Challenges (5)

2. Reasons (7)

4. Decomposes (4)

5. Frightened (6)

6. Place for overnight stay (5)

7. Wheel surround (5)

9. Large road vehicle (3)

12. Colonises (7)

14. Lair (3)

16. Protect (5)

17. Prise (5)

19. Choice and use of words (7)

20. Human trunk (5)

21. Prima donnas (5)

23. Crime against the state (7)

24. Injury, wound (6)

25. Curve (3)

27. Claw (5)

28. Tips up (5)

30. Insurgent (5)

32. Jump (4)

33. Pull with a rope (3)