ACROSS
- 1 Helpless (9)
- 8 Choose (3)
- 9 Fusion (11)
- 11 Polluted (7)
- 12 Cream (5)
- 13 Literary theft (6)
- 15 Contend (6)
- 17 Dodge (5)
- 18 Immediate (7)
- 20 Rational (11)
- 22 Dismissed (3)
- 23 Disastrously (9)
DOWN
- 2 Conduct (3)
- 3 Test (5)
- 4 Prizes (6)
- 5 Pressing (7)
- 6 Papacy (11)
- 7 Assertion (9)
- 10 Casualness (11)
- 11 Exhaustion (9)
- 14 Invented (7)
- 16 Column (6)
- 19 Rigid (5)
- 21 Nought (3)