The Guardian Weekly

Quick crossword

No 16,550

Across

1 Key used to delete the previous

letter (9)

8 Flaming __ , Frederic Leighton’s

1895 painting (4)

9 Promote (9)

10 Therefore (4)

13 Unemotional person (5)

15 Formula for making something (6) 16 Kind of incentive? (6)

17 Flat bread eaten at Passover (6) 19 Shuffling of a pack of cards (6)

20 Degree – grade (5)

21 River running from the North

Pennines to the North Sea (4)

24 Stew (9)

25 Clare Smyth or Heston

Blumenthal? (4)

26 Tiresomely, over and over again

(2,7)

Down

2 Acquired immune deficiency

syndrome (4)

3 German Baltic city, host each year to the world’s largest sailing event (4)

4 Little (6)

5 Inconceivably big (6)

6 Skills needed to survive in a

natural environment (9)

7 Single-room accommodation (9) 11 Cooked fowl’s lower joint (9)

12 Widely distributed (9)

13 What things are wound around (5) 14 Raise trivial objections (5)

18 Foreshadow (6)

19 Body of water that Moses parted when leading the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land (3,3) 22 Guns (to be borne?) (4)

23 Kind of circus performer? (4)

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