THE QUICKIE

ACROSS

1 Frank (6)

4 Playful skipping movement (5)

7 Opposite one another (4,2,4) 8 Objective (4)

9 Heaps (5)

11 First course of a meal (7) 13 Withstands (7)

15 Tyre surface (5)

17 Wind around (4)

18 Weapon type (7,3)

20 From that time (5)

21 Empty or boastful talk (3,3)

DOWN

1 Short-legged dogs (6) 2 Watch face (4)

3 Kitchen sideboard (7) 4 Munch or chew noisily (5) 5 Vegetable (3)

6 Stinks (5)

7 Main front of a building (6) 10 Portugal’s capital (6) 12 Revive or reinvigorate (7) 14 Precious metal (6) 15 Multiplied by (5) 16 Ambition (5)

17 Rudely brief (4) 19 Container (3)