Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

2. Courtyard has nothing one can knock back (5)

5. ‘High though his titles, proud his ____’ (Scott) (4) 7. A monstrous person to go back with the Sappers (4)

8. Not to have to use so much that is superfluous (8) 9. Finishes ideally with the monitors on breaking-up (8) 11. Goblin found at ice-hockey match (4)

12. An advantage of appearing at Edinburgh Festival maybe (6,7)

15. Gang that may do a stretch (4)

17. Fence of stakes is said to be broken up in enclosure (8) 19. Cheeky little devil could appear nude at a junction (8) 21. Have a yearning, for ages (4)

22. Old god who, were he right to start, might have sculpted (4) 23. Hardly a comedown, is it? (5)

DOWN

1. Microbe acquired by Teddy is an object of terror (7) 2. Writer who saw river in Italy flowing east (3)

3. What is worn may be cut in pieces (5) 4. Superintend poetry written in Old English (7)

5. No goals can I leave uncovered (3)

6. Endlessly meditate, being in charge of harmony (5)

10. Had to pay a punishing amount (5)

11. Strips the skins (5)

13. Woman with power to send me over to fourth estate (7) 14. Starts farther in from margin and cuts it in zigzags (7) 16. Has weapons unlike Milo’s Venus (5)

18. Being mis-hit with the French around, becomes supple (5) 20. Ballot-box one will soundly merit (3)

21. Allow another service and grant to hirer (3)