QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7. Wooden hammer (6)

8. Military rebellion (6)

10. Astonish (7)

11. Irritate (5)

12. Ground (4)

13. Drive back (5)

17. Calendar period (5)

18. Manage (4)

22. Infectious illness (5)

23. Excess (7)

24. Required (6)

25. Funeral vehicle (6) DOWN

1. Friendly (7)

2. Very obvious (7)

3. Started (5)

4. Achieve a goal (7)

5. Absolutely necessary (5)

6. Talked-up (5)

9. Make publicly known (9)

14. Strengthen (7)

15. Arid (colloq) (4-3)

16. Tanned animal skin (7)

19. Happening (5)

20. Maliciously unkind (5)

21. Attempted (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across 6. Horizon 7. Bonus 9. Few

10. Tête-à-tête 12. Pandemonium 15. Disgruntled 17. Faultless

19. Raw 21. Blunt 22. Narrate

Down 1. Loser 2. Kip 3. Hope 4. Contender 5. Hurtful 8. Permit

11. Gangplank 13. Doubly 14. Miracle 16. Faith 18. Stag 20. Ark