THE QUICKIE

ACROSS

1 City in Hampshire (11) 7 Great delight (4) 8 Frightening imaginary creature (7)

9 Energy (3)

10 For this reason (5) 11 Italian man (6)

13 Lively and resilient (6) 16 Musical instruments (5) 18 Stick or shaft (3) 19 Collide with (3,4) 20 Catch sight of (4) 21 Unintelligent and foolish (5-6)

DOWN

1 Highly-spiced sausage (6) 2 Irregular (6)

3 Hand tool (6)

4 May, say (5)

5 Lockjaw (7)

6 Creche (7)

11 One causing affliction or suffering (7)

12 Adult (5-2)

13 Outbreak of public anger (6) 14 Certainly (6)

15 Three-legged stand (6)

17 Mr Lyle, Scottish golfer (5)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Beacon. 4 Basra. 7 Deep-seated. 8 Flaw. 9 Ditto. 11 Escapes. 13 Shallot. 15 Egret. 17 Span. 18 Horrendous. 20 Range. 21 Glower.

Down: 1 Baffle. 2 Crew. 3 Nappies. 4 Bread. 5 Set. 6 Audio. 7 Dancer. 10 Tulips. 12 Shindig. 14 Tender. 15 Ether. 16 Theme. 17 Sumo. 19 Ran.