figword Quick #86

figword quick · by team figword · · 13×13

send the game's link to anyone you want to solve with: you'll see each other's letters appear as you type. or just solve it on your own. no account needed.

across

  1. 1'A pretty nice girl' according to Paul McCartney (3,7)
  2. 7Attitude (7)
  3. 8Ideology (5)
  4. 10Ploy (4)
  5. 11Type of letter no husband wants to receive (4,4)
  6. 13Spicy red (6)
  7. 15Sketch (aimlessly) (6)
  8. 17Unreal (8)
  9. 18Claw aggressively (4)
  10. 21Nine-piece (5)
  11. 22'I won't be able to make that happen' (2,3,2)
  12. 23Colleagues – connects (10)

down

  1. 1Lumps – hotties (5)
  2. 2Impulsive – spate (4)
  3. 3Patriotic tune (6)
  4. 4Slow French delicacy? (8)
  5. 5Purchase (7)
  6. 6Mark – takeoff (10)
  7. 9Murder scene, according to Sophie Ellis-Bextor (5,5)
  8. 12Lost fate (anag) (8)
  9. 14Canary or Falkland, eg (7)
  10. 16Sovereign state on the northern coast of Borneo (6)
  11. 19Bertie Wooster's nemeses (5)
  12. 20Jazzy gibberish (4)