Across
7
Driver and keeper of an elephant (6)
11
Slender spear of the Bantu (7)
13
Siliceous rock often occurring as flint nodules in chalk (5)
16
Male species of small deer (7)
18
Control strictly, from a term in dressage (4,4)
19
Racing sled for one or two people (4)
21
Cause to be loved or esteemed (6)
22
Greek god of darkness: Antarctic volcano (6)
Down
1
Move a plane on a runway pre-takeoff (4)
2
Extremely physically flexible (6-7)
5
Grasp the nettle (4,3,6)
6
-------- Chopin, Polish composer in France (8)
12
Non-commissioned officer in the armed forces (8)
14
John Ronald Reuel -------, fantasy writer (7)
17
Island off the west coast of Italy, south of Naples (5)