ACROSS
- 1 Knowledgeable concerning spring - tell the editor (4-8)
- 7 Moulds play with a US soldier (5)
- 8 Exhausted but tried hard (5)
- 9 & 12Ac. Was almost too late to play a subtle snooker shot
(3,2,4)
- 10 Listens again to Bert at practice (9)
- 11 Point to a girl with a cream cake (6)
- 12 See 9 Across
- 15 Value the royal purser (9)
- 17 The French have a meadow (3)
- 18 Take hard liquor to a degree, then dance (5)
- 19 Reign over African flower (5)
- 21 Anger over the right answer leads to hesitancy (12)
DOWN
- 1 Anoraks which can deflect blows (12)
- 2 Fashionable Northern pub (3)
- 3 Escape from beginner in combat (6)
- 4 He withdraws a remark on engineers with a motorised plough (9)
- 5 Noblemen are merely penniless adornments (5)
- 6 Flattery over Terry, mostly led to debasement (12)
- 7 Causing ruin to chubby Mr. Jolson (5)
- 10 Put back checks at London gallery (9)
- 13 Loafer who's more than useless (5)
- 14 Smile and leave an American abroad (6)
- 16 Merle changed his name but remained American (5)
- 20 Gun down wildebeest (3)