QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Severe (7) 5. System of beliefs (5) 8. Undetectable (13) 9. Also (3)

10. Usually (2,7) 12. Scare (6)

13. Bird house (6) 15. Hold firm (5,4) 16. Total (3)

18. For the most part (13) 20. Played with (5) 21. Ghost (7) DOWN 1. Move aimlessly (5) 2. About (13) 3. Stained (9) 4. Churchmen (6)

5. Baby bed (3) 6. Humiliation (13) 7. Veneer (7)

11. Newcomer in a religious order (9)

12. Worrier (7) 14. Proportions (6) 17. Perhaps (5) 19. Strange (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Rota 3. Needless 9. Corsair 10. Curve 11. Troublemaker

13. Nursed 15. Loiter 17. Out-of-fashion 20. Aries 21. Opinion 22. Rag trade 23. Ogle

Down: 1. Reciting 2. Torso 4. Earned 5. Dictatorship 6. Earnest 7. Step

8. Rabble-rouser 12. Ordnance 14. Rousing 16. Afford 18. Icing

19. Fair