ACROSS
- 1 Most important guy! (8)
- 5 The girl taken in by satirists (4)
- 9 Smack the little pest on return (4)
- 10 Fish to be all at sea! (8)
- 11 This book could never be trite (5)
- 12 He was thought to be the main controller (7)
- 13 Describing the meteorologist who has given the wrong forecast? (7-6)
- 18 A condition that is haltingly displayed (8)
- 19 What the widow gave a small child (4)
- 20 To hide on one occasion in short visit (7)
- 21 Decent point to the story (5)
- 22 Revolution produces a bout of illness (4)
- 23 Objects to badly written poster round the street (8)
DOWN
- 2 Do a meal in the latest style (1,2,4)
- 3 Disregard lack of care (7)
- 4 He gives a gripping performance with nothing barred (3-2,8)
- 6 About to be suspicious of the defence (7)
- 7 Boy about to press for the operator (7)
- 8 Tyrian kind of patch (6)
- 13 The sort of strike that produces violent uncontrolled act (7)
- 14 No realm should be upset by a social worker (7)
- 15 Prove an obstacle to progress farther back (6)
- 16 An opening for one of the members (7)
- 17 A piece taken from previous religious paper (7)