Crossword

Today's grid

Across

4. Doubter (7)

8. Cuisine (7)

9. Professorship (5)

10. Thought (4)

11. Bewitch (8)

13. Always (4)

14. Hint (4)

16. Correct (8)

17. Incline (4)

20. Angry (5)

21. Increase (7)

22. Figures (7)

23. Extort (5)

Down

1. Countercharge (13)

2. Home (5)

3. Disposition (4)

4. Espionage (6)

5. Surround (8)

6. Apprentice (7)

7. Reporter (13)

12. Pardon (8)

13. Ejaculate (7)

15. Emphasise (6)

18. Weird (5)

19. Tardy (4)

Last week's solutions

Across: 1 Bonneville; 7 Abilene; 8 Put up; 10 Lindsay; 11 Limit; 12 Except; 15 Terror; 17 Torso; 18 Shampoo; 21 Noise; 22 Ill-bred; 23 The Runaway.

Down: 1 Brian; 2 Needs; 3 Evelyn; 4 Impulse; 5 Latimer; 6 Paul Merton; 9 Peter Fonda; 13 Cornish; 14 Pioneer; 16 Assign;19 Allow; 20 Party.