Crossword

Today...

Across

1. Distress (5)

4. Weakling (7)

8. Call to account (7)

9. Cherish (5)

10. Cloak (4)

11. Soak (8)

13. Unusual (4)

14. Giant (4)

16. Relationship (8)

17. Morose (4)

20. Unsuitable (5)

21. Forsake (7)

22. Oubliette (7)

23. Surrender (5)

Down

1. Alone (13)

2. Fragment (5)

3. Clip (4)

4. Servile (6)

5. Tongue (8)

6. Striped (7)

7. Foregone (13)

12. Dark-haired woman (8)

13. Chorus (7)

15. Reach (6)

18. Shelf (5)

19. Cautious (4)

Last week's solution

Across: 1 Prerequisite; 7 Allow; 8 Crumb; 9 Ego; 10 Merriment; 11 Tenure; 12 Meagre; 15 Multitude; 17 Ice; 18 Nurse; 19 Tacky; 21 Parsimonious.

Down: 1 Presentiment; 2 Eel; 3 Unwary; 4 Sacrilege; 5 Truce; 6 Obstreperous; 7 Adorn; 10 Merciless; 13 Grimy; 14 Custom; 16 Larva; 20 Can.