Solution will appear in MetroPlus datedDecember 5, 2012. Solution No. 10972
Across
1 Songs from Aretha
Franklin, for example (4,5)
8 Currently broadcasting (2,3)
9 Become stiff through
stress or anxiety (5,2)
10 Equestrian’s trousers (8)
11 Short comic piece (4)
13 Linger aimlessly (6)
14 Beer cask (6)
16 Hindu discipline (4)
17 Capital of Liberia (8)
19 Period when metal tools
were developed (4,3)
20 Lustre (5)
21 Mild oath (product of a
censer?) (4,5)
Down
1 Bomb fragments (8)
2 Speaks (6)
3 Source of fur for coats (4)
4 Public showing of a film
before general release (5,7)
5 Profits from the sale of
assets (7,5)
6 Highly venomous cubeshaped creature with
tentacles, found in warm
seas (3,9)
7 Shallow water in which
children play (8,4)
12 Game played with nets
on sticks (8)
15 Lively Spanish dance (6)
18 War god — chocolate bar
— spoils (4)
