yword Quick #40

yword quick · by team yword · · 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. 5Absurd – lacking significance (11)
  2. 7Fifth book of the New Testament (4)
  3. 8Give permission – decree (8)
  4. 9Vac once (anag) (7)
  5. 11Significance – distance below the surface (5)
  6. 13Playing cards for fortune-telling (5)
  7. 14One turf (anag) (7)
  8. 16Lacking one makes you weak? (8)
  9. 17'Pea-souper' (4)
  10. 18Sincerity (11)

down

  1. 1Porridge base (4)
  2. 2A written communication (7)
  3. 3Talent, secret or AI, eg (5)
  4. 4Bad dancers have two? (4,4)
  5. 5Oversee excessively (11)
  6. 6Involuntary – unplanned (11)
  7. 10Plates, cups and dishes (8)
  8. 12Humility – chastity (7)
  9. 15Batman villain (5)
  10. 17Stage – dance move (4)