CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Campaign startegy (4,4) 5. Layer of dirt on top of a liquid (4) 8. Belonging to me (4) 9. Supposed (8) 10. Biggest (7) 12. Burrowers (5) 15. Add as a subordinate part (5) 16. Hearing distance (7) 20. China's chief industrial and commercial city (8) 21. Piece of land in water (4) 22. Employment position (4) 23. Without a single pip (8)

DOWN:

1.One who bets a sum of money (7) 2. Large country house (5) 3. Long bounding strides (5) 4. Necessity (4) 6. Heaped cloud (7) 7. Whatever he touched was turned into gold (5) 11. Epping's county (5) 12. Back tooth used for grinding (5) 13. Shoes consisting of soles and straps (7) 14. Half-suppressed laughs (7) 15. Fable writer (5) 17. Sprightly (5) 18. Great hurry (5) 19. The one here (4)

15 September 2019