QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Overtake (4)

3. Military accommodation (8)

9. Unpaid performer (7)

10. Burial chamber (5)

11. Get up to dance (4,3,5)

14. As written (L) (3)

16. Defence in court (5)

17. In favour (3)

18. Locomotive controller (6,6)

21. Succulent plants (5)

22. Deprive of courage (7)

23. Belief in a supernatural power (8)

24. Warmth (4) DOWN

1. Learn or improve by repetition (8)

2. Light meal (5)

4. Oxygen (3)

5. Stubbornly resistant (12)

6. Raise a false alarm (3,4)

7. Location (4)

8. Cancelling out (12)

12. Banish (5)

13. Salacious (8)

15. Sceptical (7)

19. Poetry (5)

20. Remnant of a wound (4)

22. Alien object (1,1,1)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 7. Bang on 8. Karate

10. Cutlery 11. Obese 12. Near 13. Covet 17. Fated 18. Gaga

22. Panic 23. Enables 24. Target 25. Nausea

Down: 1. Obscene 2. Instead 3. Coven 4. Bayonet 5. Famed

6. Beret 9. Eye opener 14. Hatchet 15. Ballast 16. Batsman

19. Spite 20. Entry 21. Canal