QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Faith (6)

5. Dodged (6)

9. Father or mother (6)

10. Puts up (6)

11. Slay (4)

12. Pause (8)

14. Depend (4,2)

16. Up to date (6)

19. Most fortunate (8)

21. Pinches (4)

22. Lasting from times long ago

(3-3)

23. Annoyed (6)

24. Sinew (6)

25. Central linked computer (6)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Dank 3. Confutes 9. Austere 10. Topic 11. Hair of the dog

14. Air 16. Scoff 17. Lit 18. Hidden agenda 21. Prior 22. Purging

23. Rigidity 24. Dyke

Down: 1. Dead heat 2. Nashi 4. Owe 5. Father figure 6. Topsoil 7. Sect

8. Reconsidered 12. Thorn 13. Strangle 15. Raising 19. Noisy 20. Spar

22. Pot

DOWN

2. Shifty (7)

3. In a perfect world (7)

4. Little possibility of success (colloq) (3,6)

6. Italian composer (5)

7. Die (7)

8. Recognise (7)

13. Occasionally (9)

14. Dependent (7)

15. Stand for speaker’s notes (7)

17. Doomed (colloq) (4,3)

18. Full, satisfied (7)

20. Ice house (5)