QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Month (6) 4 Hard-up (4) 7 Constantly (4) 8 Edge (6) 9 Spellbound (4) 10 Roasting rod (4) 12 Entreaty (4) 14 Strange (3) 16 Distant (3) 17 Ship’s company (4) 20 Notion (4) 23 Melody (4) 24 Painful (6) 25 Group of actors (4) 26 Ruminant mammal (4) 27 Colour (6)

DOWN 1 Weaponbearing (5) 2 Clothing (4) 3 Anxious (5) 4 Supernatural being (4) 5 Public speaker (6) 6 Assessed (5) 11 Wan (4) 13 Ornate material (4) 15 Queen’s son (6) 16 Pungent (5) 18 Irascible (5) 19 Drinking pipe (5) 21 Precious (4) 22 Religious image (4)