CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Pickled cucumbers (8) 5. Small shell-less mollusc destruc

tive to plants (4) 8. In the middle of (4) 9. Sail a ship (8) 10. Stick-in-the-mud (3-4) 12. Beautician's trade room (5) 15. Adult human female (5) 16. Serviettes (7) 20. Sweet-smelling (8) 21. Sticky adhesive substance (4) 22. Fla-bodied fish (4) 23. Slice of meat (8)

DOWN:

1. Watched over to protect from

harm (7) 2. A select group or class (5) 3. Further in (5) 4. Deliver from danger (4) 6. Booklet (7) 7. Coloured like grass or emerald

(5) 11. Fruit of the oak (5) 12. Slumber (5) 13. Business firm (7) 14. Repulsively indecent (7) 15. Thin light crisp sweet biscuit (5) 17. Uppermost storey in house (5) 18. Eskimo dome-shaped dwelling

(5) 19. Talk furiously as in a delirium

(4)