LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

ACROSS: 1 Pressure, 7 Free, 8 Lifetime, 9 TicTac, 10 Grills, 11 Eye, 12 Bleat, 14 Serge, 16 Gas, 18 Cellar, 20 Paving, 22 Jazz band, 23 Noon, 24 Nebraska. DOWN: 1 Partial, 2 Eject, 3 Splice, 4 Refuge, 5 Camel, 6 Stripe, 13 Ablaze, 15 Gondola, 16 Grease, 17 Spider, 19 Evade, 21 Venus.