QUICK CROSSWORD

Across

1 Excessively virtuous person

(5,3-5)

8 Turn away (7)

9 Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (5)

10 High school dance (4) 11 Throw away (8) 13 Scandalmonger (6) 14 Gossamer — A Midsummer

Night’s Dream fairy (6) 17 Boyfriend — teenager (5,3) 19 Fibre used in linen (4) 21 Sharp (5)

22 Tanned (7)

24 Force in a moving body (7,6)

Down

1 Deity (3)

2 Patent (7)

3 Those voting in favour (4) 4 Frankfurter (6)

5 Answer (8)

6 Watering hole (5)

7 Safe (9)

10 One way for an adult to carry

a child (9)

12 Most miserly (8)

15 Dancer — fairground ride (7) 16 Kind of metric foot in poetry

(6)

18 180° change of direction

(1-4)

20 Formal dress (4)

23 Arid (3)