CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. One must work very hard, being a vassal (5)

5. Bag a drink – Falstaff’s favourite (4)

7. It isn’t certain such shivering would occur after five (4)

8. Could have harped on being left without parents (8)

9. One who’s making it for the first time (8)

11. Obscurity one felt the absence of, one hears (4)

12. Instructions to skipper of motor vessel as well as yacht (7,6)

15. To AB who gets involved in craft (4)

17. Interfering with middle is somehow no good (8)

19. Minds about bin being used for weapons (8)

21. Fine cambric may need mowing sometimes (4)

22. Elderly involvement in massage demands it (4)

23. Finished what one didn’t start to have repaired (5)

DOWN

1. Plant that may be a big one (7)

2. Perceive it to appear unfinished (3)

3. It is a boxing match, roughly (5)

4. There may be material to spare for paper-making (7)

5. This side for holiday in this, son (3)

6. Salad plant for less than a loving gesture (5)

10. Los Angeles, etc, producing a striking effect (5)

11. Award possibly made to First Lady (5)

13. One named as one upset about what belongs to me (7)

14. Were end adjusted, it could be taken out afresh (7)

16. Old Japanese money was nothing to be explosive about (5)

18. Does change the day one took one’s medicine (5)

20. Make an offer to wait endlessly (3)

21. Youngster who is pleased not to have started (3)