QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Sudden decline in business (5) 8 It must be admitted (2,2,4) 9 A reddish hair dye (5)

10 A tonic (4-2-2)

11 Giver (5)

12 Supplied food to (3)

16 Large arboreal lizard (6) 17 Legendary female warrior (6) 18 Only faintly luminous (3) 23 A South American parrot (5) 24 Potential risk of injury (5,3) 25 Physically ungainly (5) 26 Sharply defined (5-3) 27 Resistance to attack (5)

DOWN

2 Be in hiding (3,5) 3 Honest and frank (3-2-3) 4 Submissive (6) 5 Briskly self-assured (5) 6 Subdued in tone (5) 7 Entice to do wrong (5) 12 A craze (3)

13 A horse’s mother (3) 14 Widely separated (3,5) 15 Fail to honour (2,4,2) 19 Committed to dreary routine (2,1,3)

20 Fling carelessly (5) 21 Heartless (5)

22 Seize wrongfully (5)