QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

8 Chestnut colour (5) 9 Loose, of hair (7) 10 Keep an eye on (7) 11 Ice house (5) 12 Headgear item (9) 14 Ill-looking (3) 15 Mooing farm animal (3) 16 Giving a false smile (9) 19 Walk on your hands and knees (5) 21 Health-club therapist (7) 23 Craft of creative paper-folding (7)

24 Dig (5)

DOWN

1 Assimilate (6) 2 Cabbage-based relish (8) 3 Terminates (4) 4 Archimedes’ exclamation (6) 5 Formally renounce a throne (8)

6 Armed fight between two (4) 7 Be connected to the side of (6)

13 Doctor’s patient numbers (8) 14 Garden insect pest (8) 15 Chrysalis sheath (6) 17 Autobiographical account (6) 18 Collect (6) 20 Parched (4) 22 Carbonated water (4)