THURSDAY’S SOLUTION (NO 9,149)

— ACROSS: 1 Olive branch. 7 Stye. 8 Cover-up. 9 Axe. 10 Scarf. 11 Resets. 13 Ordeal. 16 Moans. 18 Fan. 19 Tsunami. 20 Abut. 21 Hold the fort. DOWN: 1 Outage. 2 Ice age. 3 Excess. 4 Raves. 5 Narrate. 6 Hopeful. 11 Rematch. 12 Seagull. 13 On file. 14 Dynamo. 15 Abduct. 17 Smart. SOLUTION TOMORROW