QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Earth’s largest living bird (7) 5 Deeply tinge (5)

8 Drily humorous (5)

9 Rope attached to a whistle (7)

10 Coloured part of the eye (4) 11 Remains (8)

13 Murder (a political figure) (11) 17 Accomplished (8)

19 Electrical measures (4)

21 Display cupboard (7)

22 Device from which electrons flow out, to return to a circuit (5)

23 Triangle’s number of sides (5) 24 Barricade (7)

Down

1 Admit to holy orders (6) 2 Equatorial regions (7) 3 Do nothing (4) 4 Fairground ride (6-7) 5 Lacking knowledge (8) 6 Damn! (5)

7 First-born (6)

12 Ability to wait calmly (8) 14 Fête game (7)

15 Captain of industry (3,3) 16 Rising ground (6) 18 Potato, for example (5) 20 Agricultural unit (4)