ACROSS
- 1 Challenge to read out (4)
- 3 One who trains regularly? (8)
- 9 Boring and is due to be changed (7)
- 10 A point always cut (5)
- 11 How one knows immediately someone is surprised? (4,3,5)
- 13 Spirit priest cast out (6)
- 15 Justification a senora gives? (6)
- 17 An infant prodigy, which is not surprising (6,6)
- 20 Bird the French name (5)
- 21 Strangely one isn't under stress (7)
- 22 Stopped making retreads (8)
- 23 Escape and feel confused (4)
DOWN
- 1 Under no obligation when not taxed (4-4)
- 2 Went by horse to the ring for cowboy skills display (5)
- 4 Turned out love duets, possibly (6)
- 5 Fail to understand and get a decimal wrong? (4,3,5)
- 6 Inns with servant trouble (7)
- 7 Unusual way to serve meat (4)
- 8 A woman of letters? (12)
- 12 Charm one's way in (8)
- 14 Hint for a dog (7)
- 16 Decide to stay (6)
- 18 Train to make well, for example (5)
- 19 Some Vietnamese volcano? (4)