Crossword

Today’s

Across

1. Choose (4)

3. Ponder (8)

8. Circle (4)

9. Supplant (8)

11. Rampant (12)

13. Neckband (6)

14. Stain (6)

17. Temporariness (12)

20. Legitimate (8)

21. Plunder (4)

22. Saviour (8)

23. Smile (4)

Down

1. Necessarily (8)

2. Coagulate (7)

4. Hateful (6)

5. Hindrance (10)

6. Repeated (5)

7. Always (4)

10. Docile (10)

12. Menace (8)

15. Animosity (7)

16. Appear (6)

18. Heap (5)

19. Move (4)

Last week’s solution

Across: 1 Pitch; 4 Rosette; 8 Numeric; 9 Quest; 10 Code; 11 Ancestor; 13 Doom; 14 Acid; 16 Insecure; 17 Area; 20 Knave; 21 Assegai; 22 Nursery; 23 Eaten.

Down: 1 Panic-stricken; 2 Timid; 3 Hire; 4 Recant; 5 Sequence; 6 Treated; 7 Extermination; 12 Concrete; 13 Despair; 15 Dreary; 18 Right; 19 Isle.