QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Spotless (5) 4 Sampled (5) 7 Tease (3) 9 Steal cattle (6) 11 Keep (4) 12 Decree (3) 13 Satirise (7) 15 Briefly (2,5) 18 Brown (3) 19 Cog (4) 20 Powerful (6) 23 Plaything (3) 24 Scale (5) 25 Worthiness, value (5) DOWN 1 Christmas crooner (5,6) 2 Craft (3)

3 Zero (3) 5 Musical overture? (5) 6 Nonstop (3,3,5) 8 Greek letter (4) 10 Female pig (3) 13 Zodiac Lion (3) 14 Assembled (3) 16 Commence (5) 17 Pause (4) 18 Number (3) 21 Male cat (3) 22 Grain (3) Solutions in tomorrow’s Irish Daily Mirror