CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 No fiction in the start of the first act (4)

3 Boasts about small tails? (8) 9 Artist giving six oil works for food (7)

10 Beginning to alter notes (5) 11 He maintains a small opening behind the stumps (12)

13 Part of a river quiet during incursions (6)

15 Girl meeting another girl over in Austrian city (6)

17 Book of EEC policy and translation (12) 20 Oddly-numbered pages in the phone directory? (5) 21 Most are upset by distinguished musician (7) 22 Possibly lack bite as formal dress (5,3)

23 Need a change? This is paradise! (4)

DOWN

1 A rocket for investigating arson? (8)

2 About four in charge of the citizens (5)

4 Drink like an egg-beater? (6) 5 They can be hair-raising! (5,7) 6 Terribly earnest Oriental (7) 7 Location for a spectacle, say? (4)

8 OK ad somebody created for a land survey (8,4)

12 Biscuit showing a vehicle in a far-off place (8)

14 A canape prepared as a cure-all (7)

16 Graduates of London University in the main, perhaps? (6)

18 Taken out, being oldfashioned (5)

19 Insect larva as food (4)