QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Extinct hairy elephant (7) 5 Fine cut glass (7) 9 Tourist (9) 10 Complete disorder (5) 11 Sleek, polished (6) 12 Meagre amount (8) 14 Mental brightness (12) 18 Picture that accompanies text (12) 21 Wife of an earl (8) 23 Self-contained unit of a spacecraft (6) 25 Ability to sing (5) 26 Kindle, foment (9) 27 Small baking dish (7) 28 Indecisive, wavering (7)

DOWN

1 Inability to speak (6) 2 Field (6) 3 Nuances, implications (9) 4 Main body of a shop (4) 5 Friendliness, geniality (10) 6 Pleasure boat (5) 7 Period of instruction (8) 8 One of the audience (8) 13 Subjugation, despotism (10) 15 Earth scientist (9) 16 Be the first to find (8) 17 Soil deposited by rivers (8) 19 Assistant to a vicar (6) 20 Salad vegetable (6) 22 Make minor changes (5) 24 Secondhand (4)