YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

2. Basic 5. Fast 7. Know 8. Laburnum 9. Consider 11. Hype 12. Argumentative 15. Iced 17. Fuselage 19. Perverse 21. Boar 22. Crux 23. Esker

Down: 1. Candour 2. Bow 3. Solid 4. Cabaret 5. For 6. Slurp 10. Sound 11. Hotel 13. Enforce 14. Vagrant 16. Clear 18. Speak 20. Vex 21. Bar

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ACROSS

1. Leases (4)

3. Relied (8)

9. Frenzied, out of control (7) 10. Round cap (5)

11. Important occasion (3-6,3) 14. Expression of disapproval (3) 16. Earth (L) (5)

17. Canister (3)

18. Unable to be undone (12) 21. Chosen few (5)

22. Trumpet salute (7)

23. Dies (8)

24. Modify (4)

DOWN

1. Set free (8)

2. Weary (5)

4. Moose (3)

5. Mortifying (12)

6. Sleeping (7)

7. Obligation (4)

8. Notwithstanding (12) 12. Curt (5)

13. Inborn (8)

15. Small dog (7)

19. Insipid (5)

20. Quick look (4)

22. Enemy (3)