QUICK CROSSWORD

Answers next week.

ACROSS 4 Ex-Wimbledon

champion (3,4)

8 Stunned (6)

9 Famous

19th Century Irish politician (7) 10 See 23

11 Colour (6)

12 Huge (8)

18 Lasting (8)

20 Market (6)

21 Coarse cloth (6) 22 Coldly

detached (7)

23 and 10

Pushkin novel (6,6)

24 Tycoon (7)

DOWN

1 Blade on

a rifle (7)

2 Site of King

Arthur’s court (7) 3 Gas (6)

5 Looked at

closely (8)

6 Light (6)

7 Unhealthylooking (6)

13 Dull (8)

14 Literary

comparisons (7) 15 Snubs (7)

16 Spanish

dish (6)

17 Bird of prey (6) 19 Planet (6)