QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

8 Informal drop-in party (4,5) 9 Adverse, harmful (3) 10 Chain of operations (7) 11 Impel (5) 12 Food can (3) 14 Take on too much (6,2) 16 Churned, stirred (8) 18 Bark in a high-pitched tone (3) 21 Royce’s partner (5) 23 Anger (7) 25 Round sweet cake (3) 26 Frivolity (9)

DOWN

1 Poem with fourteen lines (6) 2 Tang (4) 3 Gunfight (5-3) 4 Nurse, nurture (6) 5 Tear apart (4) 6 Lack of courage (8) 7 Nimble-footed (5) 13 Irritating (8) 15 Commit (8) 17 Unnamed items (6) 19 Make happy (6) 20 Federation of people (5) 22 Cut-price event (4) 24 Want desperately (4)