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After last week’s difficult crossword, here is a straightforward general knowledge crossword. If you prefer to print a pdf. or work on the interactive version, click on this LINK that will take you to Antony Lewis’s Crossword Compiler website (a site invaluable to crossword compilers, solvers and educators).

Across

    7  A newly hatched fish, especially salmon (6)

    8  The food allowance for one day (6)

    9  Any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America (4)

  10  To be subject to or oppressed by (8, 2 words)

  11  An officer who bought provisions in the past (7)

  13     Unfertilized lobster roe; reddens in cooking; used as garnish or to colour sauces (5)

  15  A small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit (5)

  16  Large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings (7)

  18  An agent that spoils or makes worse (8)

  19  Blatant or sensational promotion (4)

  21  Easily frightened (6)

  22  Obsolete term for legal insanity (6)

Down

    1  Filled with melancholy and despondency (4)

    2  Related to a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) (13)

    3  To clear of obscurity (7)

    4  Not fully developed or mature; not ripe (5)

    5  Casually to buy a drink for someone else (5,4,4)

    6  At a controlled and measured speed in music (8)

  12  A light afternoon meal consisting of richly covered scones served with a beverage (5,3)

  14  A transparent piece of beryl that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem (7)

  17  Ex Prime Minister of the UK (5)

  20  A colour varying from dark purplish brown to dark red (4)

Here is last week’s solution. As you probably worked out, the Queen of Hearts said ‘Off with [her] their head(s)!’ (The heads of words fell to the bottom of the words in question:

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