CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Cook a chop like this to make one elated (4-1-4)

8 Fit for a little physical

exercise (3)

9 Women who have no-one to mow their lawns? (5,6)

11 Touch on what brought Zulu warriors to a strange end (7)

12 A full round of a small

portion (5)

13 Reason to include

number in a proviso (6)

15 He counts and

recounts (6)

17 A fit start, perhaps (5)

18 Sort of job having no

lively conclusion (4-3)

20 When it's too humid to

hunt? (5,6)

22 Born in one Eastern

land (3)

23 Carries away the gates

(9)

Down

2 Even in a row it shows love and a warm heart (3)

3 A crime for which a clergyman lost his head (5)

4 Fifty-one in surplus yet he asked for more! (6)

5 Start a company and

upgrade the staff (7)

6 They were once thought though almost entirely incredible (4,7)

7 Spoke in broken

English? (9)

10 They're put in by

present company (11)

11 Endless instances

developed (9)

14 Nobody in particular (7)

16 Coming for a time

before Christmas (6)

19 Engagement ring? (5)

21 Poem due to be heard

(3)