CROSSWORD

Across

7 Potassium compound often used in agriculture (6)

8 Diacritical mark ( two dots) placed over a vowel in

German (6)

9 Wanting in physical strength (4)

10 Oxide containing just one atom

of oxygen in the molecule (8)

11 Inauspicious (7)

13 Nymph of the woods (5)

15 Aromatic resin that is burned

as incense (5)

17 amount per unit size (7)

20 City in central Mali (8)

21 Rise rapidly (4)

23 Quick look around (6)

24 Hollow under the arm where it

is joined to the shoulder (6)

Down

1 Become (4)

2 Yackety-yak (6)

3 Apothecary (7)

4 Fluid (5)

5 Substance believed to

cure all ills (6)

6 Quarter of the circumference

of a circle (8)

12 Time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside (8)

14 Steady (7)

16 Repulse (6)

18 Source of sesame seed or

benniseed and sesame oil (6)

19 V-shaped group of geese or

swans in flight (5)

22 Blood-related (4)