QUICK CROSSWORD

Across 1. Markedly altered (11) 8. Senior pupil (7) 9. Additional amount (3-2) 10. Nicks (4)

11. Item of clothing (7) 12. Shade (3) 13. Uncommon (4) 15. Imitated (4)

17. None (3)

19. Charm (7)

20. Dull pain (4) 23. Snake (5) 24. Doting (7) 25. Quickly! (2,3,6) Down 1. Subjects (6)

2. Prevent happening (5) 3. Moved quickly (4) 4. Power cut (6) 5. Motherly (8)

6. Run down (7) 7. Delegate (6) 12. Indecisive (8) 14. Branch of mathematics (7) 16. Counting frame (6) 17. Cancel out (6) 18. Lacking in quantity (6) 21. Ascend (5)

22. Tramp (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 6. Edible 7. Absurd 10. Eternal 11. Impel 12. Veto 13. Doyen

16. Comic 17. Scar 20. Itchy 21. Against 22. Entrap 23. Primal

Down: 1. Reserve price 2. Liberty 3. Clung 4. Obliged 5. Gulps

8. Deliberately 9. Illogical 14. Copycat 15. Economy 18. Acute

19. Parry