Across
- 1. Elder’s gum paste loses tail (5)
- 3. Lady’s month opens early (3)
- 7. Royal start-up stumbles (6)
- 9. Fortunate key unlocks last letter (5)
- 11. Poet strays homeward, shortly (5)
- 12. Spring buck once leaps (6)
- 13. Ruler’s quest ends near (5)
- 14. Fruit bandana hides head (6)
- 17. Village irks by twisting (5)
- 18. Fruit reaps top off (4)
- 19. County ferries key back (5)
Down
- 2. Fruit leaps back, dropping seed (5)
- 4. Condition of a mutt is mixed (6)
- 5. Chuckle at half a slug (5)
- 6. Sweet chat cools late (9)
- 7. Grin slyly at mile (5)
- 8. Aussie pup blunders, losing head (5)
- 10. Old dear’s yarn tangled with G (6)
- 15. Guardians trap nest awkwardly (7)
- 16. Dairy mink sheds fur initially (4)