Crossword 2968

ACROSS

2 Get rid of as useless (7) 5 Jewish calendar: 6th month of the civil and 12th of the religious year (4) 6 Premonition (4) 7 Combine by addition (3 ) 9 Parched (3)

10 A device that produces flame or heat (6)

11 Go back on a promise (6) 13 Alliance of Nigerians in Diaspora (4)

15 Head Injury Criterion (3) 16 Percussion instrument (4) 18 Large newspaper headline (6)

21 Begin, undertake (6) 22 Fasten (3)

23 Poetic word for before (3) 24 Inactive (4)

25 Regular and flat (4) 26 Dissolve, part company (7)

DOWN

1 Break from a meeting, suspend proceedings (7) 2 Very tired; exhausted; sapped (7)

3 Senior member of a group or profession (5)

4 The nature or essence of a person; fact of existing (5) 8 A competitor in a contest about whom little is known (4,5)

9 An official or authoritative instruction (9)

12 Sin; do wrong (6)

14 Small hotel; pub (3) 16 Ordained by decree (7) 17 A good many, countless (7) 19 Place of residence; a house or home (5) 20 Distinguished; celebrated; well-known (5)