CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Powerful cutting tool (8)

5. Money (4)

8. Short annotation (4)

9. Cheeky (8)

10. Goal-scoring footballer (7)

12. Cudgels (5)

15. Measurements (5)

16. Greets (7)

20. Pale tanned horse (8)

21. Verbal (4)

22. Ogle (4)

23. Hoodlum (8)

14 August 2022

DOWN:

1. Card game (7)

2. Film star (5)

3. Thick slippery mud (5)

4. Clean with a mop (4)

6. Boulevards (7)

7. Despises (5)

11. Strikes with the foot (5)

12. Refrigerate (5)

13. Small antelope (7)

14. Put on show (7)

15. Each of the divisions of a calyx (5)

17. Odour (5)

18. Hurl (5)

19. Filter (4)

Win a bottle of Gavi di Gavi – Palladino and Barbera d’Alba – Palladino, provided by Charles Grech Co Ltd, Valley Road, Birkirkara

Please send your entries to ALL competitions to Features, Standard Publications, Birkirkara Hill, St Julian’s STJ 1149 and nowhere else. Please put the name of the competition on the left hand corner of the envelope.