QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Insincerely emotional (7)

5. Sped competitively (5)

8. Persuasive (6-7)

9. Dry (Fr) (3)

10. Seeing things as they are (9)

12. Refusal of a request (6)

13. Shops (6)

15. Apiarist (9)

16. Sicken (3)

18. Informal flowery outdoor area (7,6)

20. Endow with a quality (5)

21. Slim (7) DOWN

1. Becomes absorbed in thought (5)

2. Having influential friends (4-9)

3. Drunkard (9)

4. Professional killer (6)

5. Flee (3)

6. Revoked an order (13)

7. Reasons (7)

11. Junction between systems (9)

12. Fiasco (7)

14. Velocities (6)

17. Recluse (5)

19. Profound respect (3) SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Debt 3. Forehead 9. Thanked

10. Image 11. Relationship 13. Entail 15. Grieve 17. Disheartened

20. Agile 21. Tighten 22. Sinister 23. Used

Down 1. Deterred 2. Brawl 4. Old boy 5. Exit strategy 6. Evasive

7. Dues 8. Skittishness 12. Reddened 14. Tuition 16. Battle

18. Notes 19. Bats