QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

01 Distressing after-effects (5,5)

08 Exuberant enjoyment (5)

09 West African country (7)

10 Cooperation (7)

11 Maintain by reasoning (5)

12 Saturated (6)

14 Atmospherics (6)

17 Fasten firmly (5)

19 To animate (7)

21 Amount of work undone (7)

22 Sheer joy (5)

23 Having ditched at sea (2,3,5)

DOWN

02 Use economically (7)

03 Vexed (5)

04 On the decline (6)

05 A tramp (7)

06 Gesture of indifference (5)

07 A salad plant (10)

08 Warm Atlantic current (4,6)

13 Candidate (7)

15 Instruction (7)

16 Thin soft absorbent paper (6)

18 Composer of Rigoletto (5)

20 Subdued in colour (5)