CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 1. Young horse can be shot (4)

3. Acted due to having been trained (8)

8. In the morning thus taken aback by the prophet (4)

9. Came back, having to take new direction in marsh plant (8)

11. Not a very good account by indigent member of the family (4,8)

13. Making observations out with string (6) 14. Shopkeeper sounds more coarse (6) 17. Jailbird’s unequalled performance? (6,6) 20. Half praised narcotic (8)

21. A little drink knocked back in Italy (4) 22. Half gasp at the close for paying out money (8)

23. Fever in its vaguest sense (4) Down 1. Applause for doing better than about

fifty (8)

2. Beware of the prospect (4,3)

4. Lives where there are hundreds of sources of water (6)

5. Legal compulsion to be a suitor? (5,5) 6. Dance makes sunburn disappear? (5) 7. Ancient queen who achieved nothing (4) 10. Wonderful resistance to accommodation for spectators (10)

12. He has had success to a degree (8) 15. Boasting a hundred with oars (7) 16. Going round the corner one after the other (2,4)

18. Stir, or put up to employment (5)

19. With the addition of some sharp, lusty strokes (4)