Puzzles and Solutions - October 2022

Down

• 1 Man, perhaps, is siding with the French (4)
• 2 Flowery speaking by loud beginner (6)
• 3 Standing as utter nonsense (7)
• 4 Composer had originally lost out (5)
• 5 Point to the north and go quietly (6)
• 6 Regular channel for listeners (8)
• 11 Moving the French court into Morecambe, perhaps (8)
• 13 Lumpy jam, astonishingly, camouflages nightwear (7)
• 15 Odour of fish linked to the beginning of summer (6)
• 17 A quiet, long period brought about breathlessness (6)
• 18 Developed from warhead ultimately (5)
• 21 Impale calling bird (4)

Across

• 7 They keep themselves to themselves to assist in oil supply (13)
• 8 Insure it improperly and it might get on your nerves (8)
• 9 Role reversal ruse (4)
• 10 Advocate is wrongly cleared (7)
• 12 Govern Niger in an anarchic manner (5)
• 14 Gosh! London suburbs supplying poultry (5)
• 16 Song, say, is extremely dreary and horrible (7)
• 19 Manner in which tail-end is taken out is swelling (4)
• 20 Agonised over spot (8)
• 22 Divers lose masculine bent (13)