Mirror Cryptic Crossword January 16 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Started to scrounge article
  BEGAN
• Furious sign
  CROSS
• Trimmed around edge
  RIM
• Irritate at the plant
  NETTLE
• Mix in prison
  STIR
• The point of literature?
  NIB
• Great at organising sporting event
  REGATTA
• Improve her pans, somehow
  SHARPEN
• Sick of villagers
  ILL
• It’s used by clever baker
  LOAF
• Against getting fellow a stylus
  CRAYON
• Method of Native American greeting?
  HOW
• Working a lot with new nail
  TALON
• Link with student is fair
  BLOND

DOWN

• Leave fruit first for dessert
  BANANASPLIT
• Partner’s painting
  ART
• See nothing in senility
  NIL
• Month with alien group
  OCTET
• Derailments turned out to be sleek
  STREAMLINED
• Only a lake
  MERE
• Objection to going back for a bath
  TUB
• Rent in Tripoli
  RIP
• Singing with spirit
  GIN
• Use a shroud, say
  AVAIL
• Every ache is treated
  EACH
• She’s a climber
  IVY
• He has to steal
  ROB
• Law-breaking implement
  AWL