DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Girl a writer may run away with? (8)

5 Fight, probably rigged (4) 9 Once-powerful Russian arts organisation (4)

10 Separate – that’s abundantly clear (8)

11 The bilingual machine (5) 12 It’s forbidden and badly one hundred take it (7)

13 Where to sit and be patient while another is down in the mouth! (8-5)

18 But this is quite different from mal-de-mer (3-5)

19 A pre-match fling (4) 20 Plant name one needs to change (7)

21 What one taking lunch needs daily about one (5) 22 Record that makes money (4)

23 After the burlesque let’s organise a game (8)

DOWN

2 Trap seen, ran out! (7) 3 You’re in a sound position in this (7)

4 A boring affliction (4,2,3,4) 6 It puts an end to any illfeeling (7)

7 A muscle that turns up or down (7)

8 Literary type with a leaning to the right (6)

13 Dad is wrong in showing contempt (7)

14 Certainly it’s not far eastern in origin (7)

15 Just the thing for a cold in the chest! (3-3)

16 It cuts down the chat, perhaps (7)

17 Encourage another to breathe? (7)