QUICK CROSSWORD

Across

1 Holiday business — dire startout (anag) (7,5)

9 Like a sheep (5)

10 Most egotistical (7)

11 Bloody (4)

12 Bête noire (8)

14,5 They are hard to say (6-8) 15 Italian liqueur made from residue of grapes after pressing (6)

18,4 Practice of moving time forward an hour in spring (8,6)

20 Killer whale (4)

22 River flowing from Lake Erie

into Lake Ontario (7) 23 Bombardment (5)

24 Knife once used at breakfast

time? (6,6) Down

2 Fifteenth Greek letter (7) 3 Stagger (4)

4 See 18

5 See 14

6 Female English singersongwriter, b. 1988 (5) 7 Spectacular (12)

8 Running lengthwise (12) 13 Disinfect with smoke (8) 16 Piggish (7)

17 Inexpensive and shabby (6) 19 Leavening agent (5) 21 Having considerable skill (4)