CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Headwear a business area adopts for as much as it will hold (8)

7. Subarctic forest discovered, thanks to a GI turning up (5)

8. Subsequently, a loss-leader is put to the side (7)

9. In a skin-tight garment old tear can be repaired (7)

10. When finished, is in a superior position (4)

12. Outfit nonchalantly displayed but in an unbending way (7)

14. Recipes, if written out, must be accurate (7)

17. A giant bit of pretence (4)

18. Praise bestowed in dual form in the mine (7)

21. A graft I am to put in the garden (7)

22. Hindu class, etc, as it turns out (5)

23. Feeling let down by one’s apartment, indeed (8)

DOWN

1. Everyone in Jersey lacking in experience (6)

2. With which one calmly waits for solitaire (8)

3. Nursing that is needed in a geriatric area (4)

4. The man who works the land may turn the craft (6)

5. Twelve-point measure assigned to the magpie (4)

6. Showy but worthless wad: try it out (6)

7. Notwithstanding the time given to a pensée (7)

11. Distaff of which one may slip end out (7)

13. Absent-minded as the artist I’d turned into (8)

14. It’s the Pope’s rule for father in a lively situation (6)

15. It grows in tree if it’s all there (6)

16. Is being made one in duet of a sort (6)

19. Part of the church is perhaps Episcopalian (4)

20. Stone work a lecturer undertakes (4)