QUICK CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1 Gambol (6) 4 Lukewarm (5) 7 Australian state (10) 8 Defeat and put to flight (4) 9 Sordid or squalid (5) 11 Row of connected houses (7) 13 Sincere (7) 15 Flows out slowly (5) 17 Swallow rapidly (4) 18 Shabby or worn (4-2-4) 20 Hires (5) 21 Complain whiningly (6)

DOWN

1 Domesticated polecat (6) 2 Crude or oafish person (4) 3 Narrow fissure or crack (7) 4 Tries out (5) 5 A small vegetable (3) 6 Child’s word for father (5) 7 Hard glossy mineral (6) 10 A view or glance (6) 12 Worldly (7) 14 Top hat, informally (6) 15 Command (5) 16 Hits at flies (5) 17 Microbe (4) 19 Pallid (3)