Quick No 1582 (answers in next week’s paper)

ACROSS

1. Suitability (11) 9. Poem (3) 10. Decay (9) 11. Additional (5) 13. White ant (7) 14. Diatribe (6) 16. Elder (6) 18. Illusion (7) 19. Illumination (5) 20. Carry (9) 21. Jollification (3) 22. Stood for (11)

DOWN

2. Mineral (3) 3. Russian drink (5) 4. Exactness (6) 5. Ratify (7) 6. Restraining (9) 7. Homeliness (11) 8. Piercing (11) 12. End (9) 15. Sideboard (7) 17. Celebrated (6) 19. Of ancient Rome (5) 21. Opponent (3)