CROSSWORD
Across
7 Contribute (6)
8 Receive (6)
9 Ambush (4)
10 Area that is dangerous or to which entry is forbidden (2-2,4) 11 Mission (7)
13 Dish (5)
15 Act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest (5) 17 Confound (7) 20 Journey over a long distance (4,4)
21 Dull stupid fatuous person (4) 23 Measured portion of medicine (6)
24 Annoy continually or chronically (6)
Down
1 Scoff (4)
2 Ideally perfect state (6) 3 Resembling swine (7)
4 Create by hammering (5) 5 Layers (6)
6 The literary intelligentsia (8) 12 Extinct elephant like mammal (8) 14 Affluent (7)
16 A motley assortment of things (6) 18 Bear (6)
19 Seraglio (5)
22 Flower (4)