QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

3 Honest (7) 7 Proxies (6) 8 Card game (3,4) 9 Painful (4) 11 Ready to eat (4) 12 Exclude (5) 15 Breathe heavily (4) 16 Character (4) 17 Blemish (5) 18 Prison room (4) 19 Untidy state (4) 21 Hampered (7) 22 Seldom (6) 23 Colonist (7)

DOWN

1 Large amount (4) 2 Greek drink (7) 3 Shop (5) 4 Wight or Man? (4) 5 Masters of ceremonies (8) 6 Suffer (6) 10 Hopeful person (8) 11 Rodent (3) 13 Pillow (7) 14 Everyone (3) 15 Book of the Bible (6) 18 Fragrant wood (5) 19 Only (4) 20 Shafts of light (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror