1: Weapons in a womans speech (11)
2: Rouses a snake w/rattles (7)
3: Lament the first person heard in good judgment (4,3)
4: Behind and down and out (3)
5: One girl fashioned restrictive attachment (3,4)
8: Red Square leaders picking up wild stories with electronic gear (9)
9: Water plants used in informal Gaelic gardens (5)
11: Overhear them speak of the serpent's purpose. (9)
12: A Hollywood star upset about paparazzi hub in crude social event (6,5)
16: Tours river, merging initial impressions with remembered legends (5)
17: Booster involving risk brought to a halt early form of Voyager (7)
18: Newton committed to figure out research (3,4)
19: Snubbed a vacant journalist (7)
22: Short bloke quietly escaped seaweed (3)
23: First get a French weapon. (3)