QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Season (6) 4 Hard up (4) 7 Pitcher (4) 8 Inkling (6) 9 Coarse hand tool (4) 10 Item (4) 12 Container (4) 14 Strange (3) 16 Amazement (3) 17 Auction items (4) 20 Spotted (4) 23 Den (4) 24 Colonise (6) 25 Curved structure (4) 26 Binds (4) 27 Goal (6)

DOWN

1 Tendon (5) 2 Scale (4) 3 Classification (5) 4 Supernatural being (4) 5 Public speaker (6) 6 Fast (5) 11 Bird’s home (4) 13 Competent (4) 15 Inhabit (6) 16 Apportion (5) 18 Beginning (5) 19 Sheep’s cry (5) 21 Greek deity (4) 22 Male deer (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror