Horizontal:

Men - Males Desserts - Last courses Canvas - Fabric for sails and tents Dared - Had the nerve to Sweetest - Most sugary or most mellifluous Strike - Hit or take industrial action Rod - Angler's pole Scenes - Dramatic divisions Scrub - Clean with hard rubbing Horrible - Dreadful, awful Encomiums - Formal expressions of praise Produces - Makes or manufactures Nuisance - Annoying or troublesome person September - Bets per me for a month Marks - Former german currency Lodge - House at the entrance to grounds of a mansion Overdrawn - In the red Leo - Lion of the zodiac

Vertical:

Chose - Selected Standard - Reference point Races - Speed contests Arrive - Reach a destination Resist - Withstand Entrance - Way in Stamps - Receipts for postal fees Paella - Saffron-flavoured rice dish Assets - Valuable possessions Sapper - Private in the british royal engineers Bonsai - The art of growing ornamental dwarfed plants Restless - Uneasy, unable to relax Exact - Precise and correct Lumber - Sawn wood Rip - Tear, rend Range - Old-style cooking stove Seeing - Perceiving Cathedral - St paul's or st patrick's