QUICK CLUES:

Across

6. Least (7)

7. Virago (5) 9. Precipitous (5) 10. Slander (7)

12. Condition (11)

14. Hopelessness (11) 18. Stealthy (7)

19. Hurl (5)

21. Antecedent (5) 22. Oppose (7)

Down

1. Beginning (5) 2. Strip (6)

3. Place (3) 4. Menace (6) 5. Rendering (7) 8. Segregate (7)

11. Endorse (7)

12. Necessitate (7) 15. Poignancy (6) 16. Rectangular (6) 17. Go in (5)

20. Gang (3)