THEQUICKIE

ACROSS

1 Sound of knocking on a door (3-13-3) 6 Season (6) 7 Prison rooms (5) 9 Of cats (6) 10 Tennis shot (3) 11 Level (4) 14 Condiment (4) 15 On strike (3) 16 Slender supporting column (6) 17 Ambition (5) 18 Swoop (6) 20 Quarrelsome or belligerent (10)

DOWN

1 To tear (3) 2 Lavatory (6) 3 River in SW Asia (6) 4 Fare receipt (6) 5 Permission to proceed (3,5) 6 Framework to support workers (8) 8 Deliberate destruction (8) 9 Former British coin (8) 12 Seem or look (6) 13 Runs away to wed (6) 14 Persian greyhound (6) 19 Actor’s prompt (3)