| Clues down |
| 1 | Untie knot? Else it’s something hidden in the cupboard (8) |
| 2 | Weapon on fighter-plane? (3-3) |
| 3 | Parody taking time before the French game (8) |
| 4 | American lawyer involved in unseemly scrap? It could be boring! (7) |
| 5 | Glass from Shakespearian theatre wrecked on third of October (6) |
| 6 | Eat away with acid inside battered desk, roughly drawn (8) |
| 7 | Very quick sauce poured over ravioli for starters (6) |
| 14 | Inconvenient, unfitting and going away? (8) |
| 16 | “Cosmos” – a poem with no breaks? (8) |
| 17 | Fourth part of play at Elsinore finally set in motion (8) |
| 18 | Scoop me out and put together (7) |
| 20 | A bank of snow out of control (6) |
| 21 | Declare: “A sure winner!” (6) |
| 23 | Races wildly around a ruler (6) |
