ACROSS
- 1 Most willing to show diets are varied (8)
- 5 See 11
- 9 One lying in old dilapidated pool (4)
- 10 Business agreement for kind of bridge (8)
- 11 & 5Ac. Tries to get a lot
(5,1,3)
- 12 Gossips with stories about an abstainer (7)
- 13 Miserable state of an unappreciative football crowd? (13)
- 18 In the monastic establishment it will show preferential treatment (8)
- 19 Painful swelling contracted about mid-January (4)
- 20 Leave the platform, as travellers do (7)
- 21 Early race rearranged (5)
- 22 Check the front of the vessel (4)
- 23 Father for example seen in improved surroundings (8)
DOWN
- 2 It's composed of grave words (7)
- 3 See code is scrambled before the end of the message (7)
- 4 A few words from a merciful judge? (5,8)
- 6 Touch type (7)
- 7 Has a strong dislike of French trials (7)
- 8 Conditions found in America (6)
- 13 Force members to make small change (7)
- 14 Pauline may well describe one found in the New Testament (7)
- 15 Indulge in a novel experience again! (6)
- 16 One who shows this doesn't care (7)
- 17 Anybody consuming this will have had a skinful! (7)