Crossword

Across

1. Firm position (8) 5. Leave out (4) 8. If in their shells they're kernels

(4) 9. Classical music composition (8) 10. Highest (7) 12. Selected (5) 15. Soldiers (5) 16. Fair-haired women (7) 20. Wrongly conceived (8) 21. Competent (4) 22. Electrical units of resistance (4) 23. Lack of discord (8)

Down

1. Extremist (7) 2. Reckoning by eights (5) 3. Killer whales (5) 4. (Of meat) cooked through (4) 6. Sing-along entertainment (7) 7. Show to be true (5) 11. Supply gear to (5) 12. Rare object (5) 13. Tree-dwelling American marsupial (7) 14. Back or side door (7) 15. Musical term for speed and rhythm (5) 17. Byways (5) 18. State in the United Arab Emirates (5) 19. Slide on slippery ground (4)