| Clues down |
| 1 | Censor can make public kneel without king being present (4-6) |
| 2 | Small coin found in broken stringed instrument the other day (8) |
| 3 | Does this advertising employee crib other people’s work? (10) |
| 4 | Form of navigation for sluggish one – a learner? (8) |
| 5 | Container for lubricant turned up in Iona – Clio needed it (6) |
| 6 | One has a bit of biscuit for a bird (4) |
| 7 | Clumsy, left in Paris (6) |
| 8 | Fail to open systems of secret writing in poetry (4) |
| 14 | I help bears to go off – liable to go off quickly (10) |
| 15 | Apprentices’ training scheme lands Scottish town in drastic expenditure, initially, with rent payable (3,6) |
| 17 | Drive o’er? (8) |
| 18 | Frolicking characters from One Penny Frolic? There’s a lot of them about! (8) |
| 20 | Ambassador puts sister over company in which I’m found (6) |
| 21 | Cane for one employed in candle production? (6) |
| 22 | Roman day fades away (4) |
| 23 | The wrong one is sometimes hit with a hammer! (4) |
