QUICK CROSSWORD

9,326

ACROSS

1 Cooking, cleaning, etc. (9)

6 Epoch (3)

8 Quantity (6)

9 Underground vault (5)

10 Capital city of the Republic of Ireland (6)

11 Detergent (7)

13 Italian wine from Tuscany (7)

16 Thing in a rudimentary state (6)

18 Form of oxygen (5)

19 Being borrowed (2,4)

21 Mineral spring (3)

22 Unnecessary (9)

DOWN

1 Bad actor (3)

2 Accustomed (5)

3 Having no living representative (7)

4 Prophet (6)

5 From Nairobi, for example (6)

7 Part of the day (9)

8 Recklessly bold or daring (9)

12 Short rest (3-4)

14 Meteorological term (6)

15 Required (6)

17 Very light wood (5)

20 Human creativity (3)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION (NO 9,325) – ACROSS: 1 The slammer. 6 Abject. 7 Guess. 9 Pirate. 10 Her. 11 Weld. 14 Ants. 15 Out. 16 Eyelet. 17 Epoch. 18 Olives. 20 Particular. DOWN: 1 Tab. 2 Eyelid. 3 Lethal. 4 Magnet. 5 Elephant. 6 As a whole. 8 Stresses. 9 Plethora. 12 Red-hot. 13 Heroic. 14 Aerial. 19 Ear.

SOLUTION TOMORROW