CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. One told a PM about somebody in the embassy (8)

7. Angry illegal broadcaster who lost his head (5)

8. Around end of April one irons out the joint (7)

9. Is away with a sort of deer laid before one (7)

10. Auction of beer after the end of Michaelmas (4)

12. Cocktail a biker might get attached to (7)

14. Is wild about fifty one could save from the wreckage (7)

17. Be clad, as we are endlessly (4)

18. Change over to vector that might include the North (7)

21. The sheet on top is to cover layer it reveals (7)

22. He has a girlfriend of fifty and more (5)

23. Deny being, with age, bent after a start (8)

DOWN

1. It’s desuetude that puts us in the wrong side (6)

2. Pearl might include everything in a line of latitude (8)

3. Instrument showing there is nothing in honour (4)

4. Any son turning out like this makes one rattled (6)

5. Two one discovered in a state of equality (4)

6. Needs to make it right for the person who posts it (6)

7. One may be fined fifty as someone who rejects religion (7)

11. Coming from a Rugby Union team, he plays for love (7)

13. Give me a lilac to replace this flower (8)

14. It cuts the slice that may have potassium in it (6)

15. Tom – Ben, too – take a turn to bury one (6)

16. It is no grey kind of breakwater (6)

19. This may be at the hub of church architecture (4)

20. Keep turning to a small dog, in short (4)