QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Made a xerox (11) 9 Belonging to us (3)

10 Old Roman fighter (9) 11 Charitable gift (8) 12 Hairless (4)

14 Hole in a wall for a plug (6) 16 Desert plant (6) 18 Crumbling building (4) 19 Lovey-dovey (8)

22 First showings (of films, eg) (9)

23 (They) exist (3)

24 Note sent by mobile phone (4,7)

DOWN

2 Long-legged wading bird (5) 3 With each other (8) 4 Colouring pencil (6) 5 Settled the bill (4) 6 Passage from a book (7) 7 Bland, ordinary (11) 8 Information a firm keeps hidden (5,6)

13 Pesters, bothers (8)

15 ___ whispers, party game (7) 17 Racetrack (6)

20 Sound of elastic breaking (5) 21 Glass of beer (4)