CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1. About fighting retrogressive movement (8)

5. This will restrain a famous agent (4)

9. It shows what courses are available in some nurseries (4)

10. He’s in a low joint - that’s decidedly sticky (8)

11. Olive transformed by flimsy dress material (5) 12. Letters that are inclined to show stress (7) 13. Prepared computer for price table (5-8)

18. Sea check for important part of the rigging (8) 19. Coming from Southend at some time (4)

20. Biblical language Maria translated in short account (7)

21. Good sense shown by an early English parliament (5)

22. Unusually restricted diet (4)

23. This clue is treated with high regard (8)

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DOWN

2. It’s not a pretty sight when I take the air, we hear (7)

3. Paired off? (7) 4. Presumably they’re not suitable for modern trippers (3-4,6)

6. There’s nothing to fix one on a considered viewpoint (7)

7. Furniture for one employed backstage (7) 8. Assess the schoolboy’s work again and make an observation (6)

13. A racket that needs skill for defence (7)

14. Cause a stir when it is in a football crowd (7) 15. No negative character (3-3)

16. Sketchy description of a queue waiting to leave? (7)

17. Give somebody a lift (7)