The Chronicle

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Doesn’t add up to everything we hear (4)

3. Running amok, I tamed it, then copied it (8)

9. The tool sounds as though it is no good (7)

10. A fish found in the sombre Amazon (5)

11. You can’t have this lot until you reach it (7,5)

13. No places in emended steeplecha­se will make one spit tacks (6)

15. Massage back with French water in the office (6)

17. God, Cyril & I get PHD switched for young talent (5,7)

20. A city found in an Elizabetha­n oil painting (5)

21. What rindercell­a slopped (7)

22. His genre was sort of naive? (8)

23. This bird tells whoppers reportedly (4)

Down

1. On French lever? This was unexpected (8)

2. Where people work on their figures? (5)

4. Like the pope’s hat? (6)

5. Cultures I sob about because they cause a disease (12)

6. Let race come to a sticky end (7)

7. The swan is quiet and soggy (4)

8. Related to the man who will never surrender (12)

12. No responsibi­lity and less taxing (4,4)

14. No GPO in Copenhagen strangely will make it better (7)

16. Used for digging in a black suit (6)

18. Suggest a member of parliament limits lobotomy (5)

19. Type of bird pile (4)

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