CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

7 & 8ac. The elated feeling you would have if you bite deadly nightshade, Ruby, it would appear (6,4,3,5,6)

12. Descriptive of a tongue so to speak, but it is a drink (6)

14. A dull pain in the street caused by its contents? (6)

16. A less solvent sort of occupation (6)

18. Circulators trial out the bulb (6)

19. Siren made Emma flee aft, perhaps (5,6)

23. Manufacturing furniture like the prime minister will be doing (13)

Down

1. Dig up the larva (4)

2. The self-admirations the Cockney bloke is into, we hear (4)

3. Ray set out being a tenacious person (6)

4. Morris birds by the sound of it (6)

5. The star in the Lido, perhaps ... (4)

6. ... returns with foolhardiness (4)

9. It signifies the end of speech (7)

10. Chat Eli up. It is the moral thing to do (7)

11. Set-up the return of the vehicles (4)

12. A rounded projection was part of the listening device (4)

13. A poem from the Antipodes (3)

15. The attitude of the chairwoman (3)

17. The midshipman has a joint (6)

18. Commercially recoil from being cold and wet (6) 19. Abuse aimed at aircraft (4) 20. Many have a goal to cripple (4)

21. Questions, as made with potassium and sulphur (4)

22. An eagle eye from the liner nest (4)