10-MINUTE QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Properly (4)

3. Progressed (8)

8. Despatch (4)

9. Scholarly (8)

11. Preliminary (12)

13. Get away (6)

14. Battled (6)

17. New birth (12)

20. Not eatable

(8)

21. Fete (4)

22. Blow up (8)

23. A metal (4)

DOWN

1. Scorned (8)

2. Madman (7)

4. Diversion (6)

5. Extra (10)

6. Singers (5)

7. Nightfall (4)

10. Finishing (10)

12. Model (8)

15. Wry face (7)

16. Little ball (6)

18. Expel (5)

19. Untamed (4) 13 Impost; 15 Astral; 18 Ignoble; 20 Brass; 22 Union; 23 Trivial; 24 Penetrating. Down: 2 Plant; 3 Repress; 4 Please; 5 Inane; 6 Traitor; 7 Ignominious; 8 Senselessly; 14 Pensive; 16 Subsist; 17 Better; 19 Binge; 21 Align.