QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

8 Provide gear to (5) 9 Longed (for) (7)

10 Shoot of a climbing plant (7) 11 Same as before (5) 12 Visited without warning (7,2) 14 Daily newspaper (3)

15 ___ up, confess (3)

16 Now living apart (husband and wife) (9)

19 Soft creamy sweet (5) 21 Took (a child) into your family (7)

23 Come together for a formal meeting (7)

24 Move to music (5)

DOWN

1 Hired (6)

2 Reject, decline (4,4)

3 Box, fight (4) 4 Travelled by bike (6) 5 Brightly coloured handkerchief worn on the head (8) 6 Nautical mile per hour (4) 7 Be connected to the side of (6)

13 Went before (8) 14 Catching a glimpse of (8) 15 Place of business (6) 17 London river (6) 18 Bumper car (6)

20 Great ___, dog breed (4) 22 ___ and ends, scraps (4)