Crossword 2934

ACROSS

1 Horizontal bars between the upright goal posts of a soccer pitch (9)

5 The front of a building (6) 6 Buy the freedom of; emancipate (6) 8 Displaying sharp intelligence or mental alertness (6) 10 Young owls (6)

13 Agony (3) 14 Ghanaian monetary unit worth 100th of a cedi (6) 17 Seize (6)

18 Artificial head of hair (3) 19 Immaculate (6)

21 Tie up the loose ends; wrap up (4,2)

23 Person’s partner in marriage (6)

24 Without exception (2,1,3) 25 Sacrilegious or profane talk (9)

DOWN

1 Ride a bicycle (5)

2 Drive, pilot (5) 3 Two-wheeled handcarts used by vendors (7) 4 Surrounding of a fortified place to isolate it from help and supplies (5) 5 Treatments that cleanse and tones the skin (9) 7 Deformed (9) 9 Opinions (5)

11 Past tense of win (3) 12 Gain knowledge or acquire some skill (5) 15 Wordplay (3) 16 Apparently never growing old (7)

20 Short for atomic bomb (1-4) 21 Look at closely (5) 22 Mannequin (5)