Crossword 3069

ACROSS:

1 Structures built on the shore for ships to be loaded or unloaded (6)

4 Heavy base supporting a statue or vase (6)

8 Garlic mayonnaise (5)

9 Look daggers at (5) 10 Notice in a public medium promoting a product (13)

13 Appropriate (3)

14 Child’s box-like bed (3)

15 Organisation of African Unity (3)

17 Prepare for war (3)

20 Banishments of persons from their native countries (13)

21 Characterised by clever humour (5)

22 Made of, or covered with wax (5)

23 Nutcase (6)

24 Takes as one’s own child (6)

DOWN

2 Arrangement on a person’s head (6)

3 Fairground ride with a fast train that goes up and down steep slopes (13)

5 Denied communication with other people (13)

6 Member of Setswana-speaking people of Botswana and South Africa (6)

7 Furnish with (5)

11 Relating to or characteristic of the Tatars (5)

12 Zoology: mouth or mouthlike part (5)

16 Run out (6)

18 Luxurious or elegant (5)

19 Rebellious or troubled state of discontent (6)