The Malta Independent on Sunday
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Person with long experience (3-5)
5. Group of parties or countries who have formed an alliance (4)
8. Barks shrilly (4)
9. Refrained from yielding (8)
10.. Prime minister (7)
12. One who looks after elderly persons in a home (5)
15.. Discharge a gun (5)
16.. Displaying information as numerals
(7)
20.. Somehting that has been over
looked (8)
21.. Joint between thigh and lower part
of human leg (4)
22.. Playthings (4)
23.. Small parrot with long tail (8)
DOWN:
1. Mythical mountain, home of the Greek gods (7)
2. Of two parts (5)
3. Blend gradually (5)
4. Slice of bread rebaked (4)
6. Form of religious ritual (7)
7. Drink made from fermented apple juice (5)
11. Nitwit (5)
12. Hold on by grasping (5)
13.. Honour greatly (7)
14.. Accumulate (7)
15. Not long from end to end (5)
17.. Division of target next to bull's-eye
(5)
18.. Stretched tightly (5)
19.. Speech defect in which the 's' is pro
nounced like 'th' in thin (4)