QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

8 Calypso-playing group (5,4) 9 Mischievous fairy (3) 10 Short excursion (3,4)

11 Join together (5)

12 Beast of burden (3) 14 Dried up by hot weather (3-5) 17 Fields for horses (8) 19 Timid, reserved (3) 21 Intended, targeted (5) 23 Irritably tense (7)

26 Small hotel or pub (3) 27 Water company’s lake (9)

DOWN

1 Second-hand motor (4,3)

2 Refuse to admit (4)

3 Put out of focus (4) 4 Take place, occur (6) 5 Bible’s first man (4) 6 Lion-hearted (8)

7 Bid (5)

13 Closing noisily (8) 14 Down in the dumps (3) 15 Commercials (3) 16 Unsolved problem (7) 18 Ham-fisted (6)

20 Lose your cool! (5) 22 Have the courage (4) 24 Division of a school year (4) 25 Fine, of high quality (4)