Across
3
Tales – financial holdings (8)
9
It means the same thing (7)
11
Meanwhile back at the ____ (5)
14
It’s meant to make you buy (13)
17
Country with two million lakes (6)
19
Fauna’s counterpart (5)
22
Do as a volcano may do (5)
23
Lettuce type named for a geological feature (7)
Down
1
Closer to the water’s source (8)
2
Articles of cotton etc (5)
4
Moan comic unit (anag) (13)
7
Word after ‘Simon’ or before ‘who?’ (4)
8
News presenter – it stops the yacht (6)
13
Not a friend – increasingly odd (8)
15
Structure by which a train may cross a valley (7)
16
Towering figure in Paris architecture (6)
18
____ careful consideration (5)
20
Patent – plain – public (5)
21
Hereditary determinant of specified difference between individuals (4)