QUICK CRYPTIC

Across

7 ___-blue (staunch) (4) 8 What a sniperscope employs (8) 9 Window dressing (8) 10 Absolutely not (4) 11

The perfect match, for some (2,5) 13 Work shirker (5) 15 Diminutive (5) 17 Topic at a winetasting (7) 20 Very satisfied with oneself (4) 21 Facial hair (var) (8) 23 Writer Stein (8) 24 Watch word? (4)

Down

1 code (02 for J’lem) (4) 2 The character ObiWan

(6) 3 Too cute, say (7) 4 Not before (5) 5 Word after “I’ll be” (6) 6 Time and place-evoking music (3,5) 12 Recall (8) 14 Tony Soprano, for one (7) 16 Unbroken, musically (6) 18 What a crystal ball gazer sees (6) 19 Love, in the Louvre (5) 22 High, in Hamburg (4)