QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Digging (9) 8 Spirited (5) 10 Fast (5) 12 Darn (3) 13 Word indicating a direct quotation (3) 14 Clairvoyant (4) 15 Zone (6) 16 Distributed (5) 18 Payment (6) 20 Secondhand (4) 22 Tavern (3) 23 Craft (3) 24 Type of coffee (5) 25 Gain knowledge (5) 26 Exhausted (9)

DOWN

2 Lever (5) 3 Tied (4) 4 Stoat-like mammal (6) 5 Respond (5) 6 Stew (9) 7 Demeaning (9) 9 Leafy (7) 11 Photograph (7) 15 Miserable (3) 17 Mr Shackleton? (6) 19 Sorceress (5) 21 Look fixedly (5) 23 Soothing succulent (4)