THE QUICKIE

Yesterday’s solutions: Across:

1 Pudding. 5 Easy. 7 Dig. 8 Conclude. 9 Smart. 10 Void. 13 Rude. 14 Amid. 18 Cure. 19 Remit. 21 Sustains. 22 Ron. 23 Hour. 24 Arrange.

Down: 1 Pedestal. 2 Dogmatic. 3 Incite. 4 Geneva. 5 Eclair. 6 Soda. 11 Dummy run. 12 Sentence. 15 Duster. 16 Retina.

17 Eraser.

20 Ouzo.

ACROSS

1 Ludicrous (6) 4 Weak and delicate (5)

7 Lowest possible level (4,6)

8 Blessing or benefit (4)

9 Refute (5) 11 Require (4,3) 13 Flow windingly (7) 15 ...Lane, writer (5) 17 Appear (4) 18 Mismanagement (10)

20 Sudden forward movement (5) 21 Infuriate (6)

DOWN

1 Foreign language (6)

2 On top of (4) 3 Duchy (7)

4 Batter ingredient (5)

5 Human creativity (3)

6 Restrict (5) 7 Decorating tool (6) 10 Spending plan (6) 12 Remainder (7) 14 New version of an old film (6)

15 Desert animal (5) 16 Solus (5)

17 Wound mark (4) 19 Star (3)