Daily crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1. Have fun on stage (4) 3. They enable the climber to get stuck in, so to speak (8) 9. Somewhere to sleep out of boredom (7) 10. Imply no addition would be needed for Dante’s place (5)

11. The news takes mental ability (12)

13. Wide road makes a place to meet (6)

15. In the last rally of the stars (6)

17. As an improvement on the gambler’s behalf? (3,3,6)

20. A universally held principle that nobody joins the team in the morning (5)

21. In a way select Ernest to go to the readingdesk (7)

22. Wide view alternatively seen in canal region (8) 23. A tendency to be crooked, perhaps (4)

DOWN

1. Published article by innkeeper (8)

2. No one left the audition (5)

4. Stay again with mother at home (6)

5. Girl orator’s first attempt (6,6) 6. Apparently former skater has commission (7)

7. Certain ruse went adrift (4)

8. Buyer of cucumber? (4,8)

12. Wine to hold in instrument (8)

14. There’s a lot of feeling in this Eastern movement (7)

16. Blamed for the uproar (6)

18. Subject for article written by yours truly (5) 19. Catch at small faults shown by fish (4)