Complete the puzzle: Keep working through the clues and filling in the squares until you have completed the entire puzzle. RAGUS [Italian sauces] reversed [served up], SNAP (without warning). Chambers allows the abbreviation of ‘sugar snap pea’. Read the clues: Each square in the grid has a clue associated with it, usually in the form of a definition or word association. Read the clues carefully and try to determine what word fits in each square. I needed the full 10 minutes of my target time for this one as I managed to misread the clue at 17ac and wrote IDOL as the answer. This gave me problems with 18dn until I realised by error.

Playing a crossword puzzle involves filling in a grid of blank squares with words that intersect at certain letters. Here are the steps to play a crossword puzzle: