CROSSWORD

Across 1 Convey sheer ecstasy (9)

8 Bull ring? (5)

9 To snub a girl may be wounding (7)

10 Firs do make attractive features in Norway (6) 11 Game in which you have to leap about (6) 12 Stop in front of a low building (8)

15 One point on a fork is unpleasantly sharp (8) 18 It’s old, perhaps, and not easily moved (6) 20 I’d seem upset by a death (6)

21 Sailor reads about scrapes (7)

22 Total issue (5) 23 Trace idea that is wrong and root it out (9) Down 2 One way to go right out East (5) 3 Seaman in a hold (6) 4 Father’s fur coat is good enough (8) 5 It’s exhausting, but follow it up with a telephone call (6) 6 Any girl so mistreated might react thus (7) 7 Expression of annoyance for your immediate occupation (9) 11 Completed the course and got dead drunk (6,3)

13 Fair description of a reformed character (3,2,3)

14 The bishop is formal and had a meal (7) 16 Wish to reside in style (6)

17 Patchy picture of an ancient lawgiver (6) 19 Nitre treated like nitrogen (5)