SATURDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION:

ACROSS: 1 Amused 5 Flame 9 Terms 10 Setback 11 Brat 12 Dry-clean 16 Psychedelic 18 Venerate 21 Smew 23 Present 24 Rotor 25 Dense 26 Deduct DOWN: 2 Mortal sin 3 Sash 4 Disorientated 6 Label 7 Mocha 8 Stubs 13 Chew 14 Enigmatic 15 Acer 17 Twerp 19 Eerie 20 Eases 22 Grid

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Basement or wine

store (6)

4 Idle, dormant

(land) (6)

9 Alternatively

named (inits) (3)

10 Person digging for precious yellow metal (4,5)

11 Pull strenuously (5) 12 Sunday (7)

14 Biker’s protective

headgear item (5,6) 17 Seemliness (7)

18 Particle of snow (5) 20 Change of heart or

tactics (5-4)

22 Wet earth (3)

23 Wait (4,2)

24 Musical beat (6)

DOWN

1 Latin American dance

of Cuban origin (3-3)

2 Woolly South

American animal (5)

3 Attacker (9)

5 Intention (3)

6 Family descent (7)

7 Value (5)

8 Profane (11)

13 Small bird with pinkish

plumage (9)

15 Ring-tailed American

animal (7)

16 Rarely, hardly ever (6) 17 ___ of a Salesman,

Arthur Miller play (5) 19 Confess (5)

21 The ___ Gentlemen of Verona, Shakespeare comedy (3)