QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6. Slow to understand (6)

7. Change or improve (6)

10. Accept as true (7)

11. Leans to one side (5)

12. Consumes (4)

13. Underground pipe (5)

16. Not as many (5)

17. Duo (4)

20. Drama set to music (5)

21. Car frame (7)

22. Joshed (6)

23. Average (6) DOWN

1. Incomprehensible jargon (12)

2. Sportsperson (7)

3. So far (2,3)

4. Plume (7)

5. Be able to (5)

8. Give a false account of (12)

9. Veneration (9)

14. Linked (7)

15. Combat vessel (7)

18. Scrawny (5)

19. Loathed (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Bias 8. Pugnacious 9. Postcard

10. Down 12. Spirit 14. Pleads 15. Becalm 17. Assess 18. Seat

19. Stalwart 21. Admonishes 22. Hide

Down 2. Incomplete 3. Spot 4. Aghast 5. Hard up 6. Kindness

7. Assn 11. Widespread 13. Reaction 16. Misfit 17. Apathy 18. Slap

20. Wash