THE QUICKIE

ACROSS

1 Unpleasant to taste (11)

7 Beloved (4) 8 Extraordinary event (7)

9 Diocese (3)

10 Emit light (5) 11 Hard silvery-white metal (6)

13 Small ingenious device (6) 16 Informers or spies (5)

18 Fastener (3) 19 Compel compliance with (7) 20 Dry (4)

21 Honest (11)

DOWN

1 Made familiar with (4, 2)

2 Former name of Iran (6)

3 Bewail (6) 4 Conditions (5) 5 Support (7) 6 Component (7) 11 Nunnery (7) 12 Avian disease (4, 3) 13 Summerhouse (6) 14 To leave (6)

15 By far (6)

17 Walk pompously (5)