QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Prepared (7) 5. Grin (5) 8. Something unpleasant which has to be done (9,4) 9. Doze off (3) 10. Practises (9) 12. Sceptics (6) 13. Sees (6) 15. Take back (9) 16. Fuss (3) 18. State of happiness which ignores reality (5,8) 20. Brushed (5) 21. Wiped out (7)

DOWN

1. Physical or verbal dispute (3-2)

2. Clumsy and/or unlucky (8-5) 3. Teaches (9) 4. Fatalities (6) 5. Bashful (3) 6. Inquiry (13) 7. Joins up (7) 11. Helper (9) 12. Water bottles (7) 14. Vandalise (6) 17. Not hidden (5) 19. Harden (3)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across 1. Sore 3. Precedes 9. Answers 10. Miser 11. Discourteous 13. Nobody 15. Assets 17. Indisputable 20. Wound 21. Amongst 22. Tethered 23. Used

Down 1. Standing 2. Risks 4. Rosary 5. Compensation 6. Dispute 7. Sure 8. Second fiddle 12. Assented 14. Banquet 16. Opiate 18. Bogus 19. Swot