ACROSS
- 1 The outcome of reform in Ulster (6)
- 4 Staple up flower parts (6)
- 9 Chicanery a musician may need? (5,8)
- 10 Hesitates and hits red, perhaps (7)
- 11 Grant for a hospital room (5)
- 12 Even the other way round as well (5)
- 14 Does it hurt to be clever? (5)
- 18 Marry despite impediment (5)
- 19 An instance of decline? (7)
- 21 Royal pastry cook - she's a card (5,2,6)
- 22 Encounters egghead returning respect (6)
- 23 Scatters small tartan trousers (6)
DOWN
- 1 Terrible desire to live (6)
- 2 Give therapy to people in the beginning - it's what celebrities expect (4,9)
- 3 Extrasensory perception man returning after a break (5)
- 5 Shout a former demand (7)
- 6 Beastly reticence to show where creatures are protected (6,7)
- 7 Stable, yet sad somehow (6)
- 8 Rough total (5)
- 13 Hence an alteration to improve (7)
- 15 Money order you have to examine, say? (6)
- 16 Preliminary outline of the call-up (5)
- 17 Bridgehead endures explosions (6)
- 20 Fast ships (5)