QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Champion (6) 4 Magician’s apparatus (4) 7 Neglect (4) 8 Season (6) 9 Eye swelling (4) 10 Fencing sword (4) 12 Heart (4) 14 Arithmetic problem (3) 16 Male cat (3) 17 Badger’s burrow (4) 20 Flying mammals (4) 23 Implement (4) 24 Decorative line (6) 25 Epic narrative (4) 26 Large amount (4) 27 Aches (6)

DOWN

1 Squander (5) 2 Technology enthusiast? (4) 3 Man’s name (5) 4 Sagacious (4) 5 Affirm (6) 6 Reverie (5) 11 Nuisance (4) 13 Evict (4) 15 Stamp a design (6) 16 Emblem (5) 18 Treatise (5) 19 Gown (5) 21 Expression of woe (4) 22 Layer (4)