QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

3 Dunce (7) 7 Unprincipled (6) 8 Reinforce (7) 9 Colourless (4) 11 Cord (4) 12 Lead (5) 15 Platform (4) 16 Necessity (4) 17 Art form (5) 18 Herb (4) 19 Cereal plant (4) 21 Dissent (7) 22 Paused (6) 23 Gasps (7)

DOWN

1 Large amount (4) 2 Write (7) 3 Myth (5) 4 Fleshy succulent (4) 5 From Latin America (8) 6 Rushed (6) 10 Opening (8) 11 Sharp blow (3) 13 Under (7) 14 Allow (3) 15 Take temporarily (6) 18 Units of distance (5) 19 Seldom seen (4) 20 Deities (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror