CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 The overtaker's club

(7,3)

7 With spirit a sailor comes back to dance (5)

8 Dog makes up

mother's quarrel (7)

10 Preserving choice fish

(8)

11 Sphere of the dance (4)

13 To disappear in a caravan is hardly likely! (6)

15 Excuses, we hear, give

satisfaction (6)

17 They may be eaten

slowly or bolted (4)

18 Submitted to the

Spanish guard (8)

21 Conspicuous foreigner

in the street (7)

22 Some athletes congratulate rivals afterwards (5)

23 Leaders of newspapers

(10)

Down

1 His accounts are not

taken seriously (5)

2 How a bright idea

comes to you? (2,1,5)

3 A book Kipling wrote on love - popular in Japan (6)

4 What the sea may do

to a ship (4)

5 His enemies got fatally

jarred (3,4)

6 Their produce goes to

press (5,5)

9 A groundless scare from a faulty clock? (5,5)

12 Possibly fill a lot of

ships (8)

14 Stung to anger (7)

16 Escort goes round a

military area (6)

19 Records some music

(5)

20 Worst and best! (4)