CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
Find the familiar phrase, saying or name in this arrangement of letters.
ACROSS
1. Moon starer or star-gazer? (10)
7. Pole, fashionable sculptor (5)
8. Tested the depths with a feather on Bray Head (7)
10. On Sunday, loudly proclaim one’s a hussy (8)
11. Without Penny, closely studies minerals (4)
* Shrewd argument heard in the fencing arena? (3,3,6)
15. Returning lists, I get instant illumination (6)
17. Model tearaway on a day out? (4)
18. Bomb fragments blasted Len Sharp (8)
21. Disagree on a rude poem (7)
22. Constellation seen over Rio in advance (5)
23. Trust the skilful to be loan worthy (10)
DOWN
1. Birch relative – Bert returned sore (5)
2. In principle, chaps have an apartment building (8)
3. Very large victim for a fishing hawk (6)
4. Return to drink with zero work (4)
5. Love to seize me back with a commercial ban (7)
6. Speech to reduce alternative for type of advocate (10)
9. Fashionable follower without self-control (10)
12. Tom, maybe, and a crest found in burial chamber (8)
14. Reduced slimmer? (7)
16. See 13 Across
19. One’s in a part of church with an unaffected manner (5)
20. A thousand finish up in fix (4)