QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Hugely successful

song (5,3)

6 Deal (with) (4)

8 Historic Spanish

fleet (6)

9 Holding, occupation (6) 10 Tyrant, despot (8)

13 Military takeover (4)

14 Bully (9)

17 In times gone by (4)

18 Overshoes for bad

weather (8)

19 Radio code word between Romeo and tango (6)

21 Blinking facial

feature (6)

23 Distorted (4)

24 Device for slinging

stones (8)

DOWN

2 Grisly (6)

3 Health resort (3)

4 Thick fireside

carpet (6-3)

5 Small bird of various

kinds (3)

6 Awake or aware (9)

7 Permeable by

liquids (6)

11 Classified (3,6)

12 Quick to bounce

back (9)

15 Inadvisable (6)

16 Time-saving

telephone function (6) 20 Part of a circle (3)

22 Supernatural

power (inits) (3)