November Puzzles

Across

• 5 Quiet dwelling for head of state (9)
• 8 Brain care (4)
• 9 Shut up! No need to get upset! (8)
• 10, 11 "Shoulder to shoulder," says nation (6,6)
• 11 See 10
• 13 This renders stiff celebrity completely happy for starters (6)
• 15 Spoil every finalist giving agreement (6)
• 16 Setter gets stuck into strangely erratic standards (8)
• 18 Graphic representation of internet scam (4)
• 19 A topic I'll mistake as constitutional (9)

Down

• 1 Come ahead of endless gold hunter (8)
• 2 Put out if Islamic State went to court (6)
• 3 Finds it out as oddly lacking in morons (6)
• 4 Green keeper goes head over heels clutching joint (4)
• 6 Tearing us apart to get trademark (9)
• 7 The French department skirts around choice (9)
• 12 One guy takes Mr Clapton captive from over The Pond (8)
• 14 A bishop is hiding in that man's part of the Outer Hebrides (6)
• 15 The first bit of this flipping Hamlet, for example, is awful (6)
• 17 That house keeps you in the past (4)