The Mercury

THE QUICKIE

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1 Body part (7) 7 Frozen spike (6) 8 Evident (7) 9 Strong impulse (4) 10 Vend (4) 12 Glaringly conspicuou­s (7) 14 Ridicule or contempt (7) 16 Firing of a gun or cannon (4)

18 Cold weather (4) 20 Inert gas (7) 21 Deprive of food (6)

22 Put at a loss (7) 1 Wreckage (7)

2 Take pleasure or wallow (5)

3 At the summit (4) 4 Avaricious (7) 5 Places or locates (8)

6 Large wine or cider bottle (6)

11 Tepid (8)

12 Type of coarse fern (7)

13 Lockjaw (7) 15 Elaboratel­y adorned (6)

17 Code word for ‘H’ (5)

19 Mr Gosling, actor (4)

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