QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Keep hold (5)

4 Fall rapidly (7) 8 Clumsy stupid person (3) 9 Previously mentioned (9) 10 Artist’s range of colours (7) 11 Willing (5)

13 Cooking instructions (6) 15 Idiomatic expression (6) 18 Possibly (5)

19 A sudden inclination (7) 21 Having as profit (2,3,4) 23 After all deductions (3) 24 Combat aircraft (7) 25 Surrender (5)

DOWN

1 Helicopter (7)

2 Hotly pursuing (2,4,3) 3 Of extraordinary size (5) 4 Tried and tested (6)

5 Dig up (7)

6 Extinct flightless bird (3) 7 In the present times (5) 12 Immediately on seeing (2,1,6) 14 Ostensible reason (7) 16 Throw out (7) 17 Healthy growth (6) 18 A decorative design (5) 20 Rice field (5)

22 Trite quotation (3)