CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

1/3 ACROSS

7. Silk pants, more adaptable as having an athletic quality (13)

8. His stock is likely to go up in smoke (11)

12. Risk removing end from eastern part of church (6)

14. Worked very hard, and rescued about fifty (6)

16. Was nosy about the last letter, which was highly valued (6)

18. In which love means nothing to those concerned (6)

19. It comes between the floor and what’s bent (8-3)

23. Complete charges for journeys made in such streets (13)

DOWN

1. Catch sight of the exact location (4)

2. Snatch bag that’s put up right inside (4)

3. Spirit, beloved of Cupid (6)

4. Peers seen on entering drinking-places (6)

5. Bail-breaker goes to a town in France (4)

6. Go downhill at Tyrol initially for takeoff (4)

9. Speech is one alternative NATO might offer (7)

10. Treeless tract Anna’s erected around Virginia (7)

11. ‘E conceals a date from the Romans (4)

12. What the journalist writes is not original (4)

13. The seventeenth letter snooker player needs (3)

15. Shelter is found in the jungle eventually (3)

17. Grief may be loud, or confused (6)

18. Tithes then to be arranged in having the street up (6)

19. Eastern eye makeup sounds as if it might burn (4)

20. Deservedly get the attention of leading nobleman (4)

21. Is only average stingy (4)

22. Long foot-journey given up in biker territory (4)