March 2022 Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 Craft brew by a jock producing poem (11)
• 9 Jelly has pickle in the middle (5)
• 10 Train one in convoluted tenure (7)
• 11 Form put in charge of textbook (7)
• 12 More cheerful when King George is eating? Yes! (5)
• 13 Fun entente Martin brought about (13)
• 17 Formerly glib, now living abroad (5)
• 19 Case for alcohol's terrific attributes (7)
• 21 Skirt worn by mediaeval ancestor (7)
• 22 Contests expected to get extremely ludicrous (5)
• 23 Pound is blocking access in mortgagee's common currency (5,6)

Down

• 2 Tarmac is quiet when finish is applied on either side (7)
• 3 Offer finance and, first and foremost, support some rugby players (5)
• 4 Thatcher cross about psychologist's assessment (9,4)
• 5 Company backing label showing figure (7)
• 6 Kindly outsiders associated with family of deviant tastes (5)
• 7 Left on the other side of the Channel? That's awkward! (6)
• 8 Sounds like more than one possible ingredient of a fruit salad (4)
• 14 Tango is involved in dancing around a round building (7)
• 15 It helps to make reflex tremendously intense (7)
• 16 Force most of the decay (6)
• 17 Green-eyed monster for loveless diplomat? (4)
• 18 Vibration arises next to college in Westminster (5)
• 20 Burdened boy gets outwardly egalitarian (5)