Quick crossword

No 16,394

Across

1 Physical evidence of excitement or fear (10)

7 Senior citizen (7)

8 Loud metallic sound (5)

10 Spanish romantic painter of The Third of May 1808 (4)

11 Dodgy (8)

13 Erase (3,3)

15 Mend (6)

17 Aesop’s winner of a race with a hare (8)

18 Bird that can be mute? (4)

21 Restoration and/or repair of machinery, equipment etc (5)

22 Word consisting of initial letters (7)

23 Tortilla filled with cheese and heated (10)

Down

1 Light-headed (5)

2 ___ von Bismarck, 19th-century German statesman (4)

3 Captivated (6)

4 (As wine bottle) open (8)

5 Mechanically operated musical instrument – on a pail (anag) (7)

6 One who pens numbers (10)

9 Food lover (10)

12 Flared women’s trousers (8)

14 Highly infectious avian virus (4,3)

16 ‘No Man is an ___ ’ (John Donne) (6)

19 British legal tender (informal) (5)

20 (Of an exam) viva voce (4)