Quick No 1575 (answers in next week’s paper)

ACROSS

1. Flute players (9) 8. Regret (3) 9. As an example (3,8) 11. Hold back (7) 12. Expel (5) 13. Method (6) 15. Up-to-date (6) 17. Impel (5) 18. Winged horse (7) 20. Change direction (5,6) 22. Sever (3) 23. Make reprisals (9)

DOWN

2. Zodiac sign (3) 3. Singer (5) 4. Sofa (6) 5. Genuine (7) 6. Ancestor (11) 7. Ponders (9) 10. Revive (11) 11. Domicile (9) 14. Voter (7) 16. Zeal (6) 19. Murmur angrily (5) 21. Clique (3)