CROSSWORD

Across

1 seasonal review (9)

8 an odd type of route (5)

9 desserts for festive occasions (7)

10 Take exception to an article (6)

11 a girl came in to study the weapon (6)

12 Maybe more cuts will attract one (8)

15 aren’t such soldiers involved in civil war? (8)

18 This by itself is only a gradual process (6)

20 Cleaning brush barely used (6)

21 nimbleness of Us soldier in Italy on manoeuvres (7)

22 Love to scold and harangue (5)

23 Couldn’t find reason for failed campaign (4,5)

Down

2 a lump in the throat (5)

3 showing an inclination to do some gardening? (6)

4 Local ranch where Incas ate perhaps (8)

5 What one does with a bookmaker of course (3,3)

6 Masses of people moving about in the morning in the streets (7)

7 Take a repeated action for retreat that is chaotic (9)

11 It makes home clean and changes its colour (9)

13 star as a roof-raiser? (8)

14 Out of place competitor (4-3)

16 The first composer to go (6)

17 all set out to see the girl (6)

19 Louts break up the plant (5)