CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. I’m entering non-u club, which is uphill work (5)

5. Be held by topless boy and do as he tells you (4)

7. Put it out it’s the hour to return (4)

8. So to say, it goes without saying (8)

9. Went ahead and made a loan (8)

11. Is extra large across the beam (4)

12. Popularly in two minds as to rich zone chips come from (13)

15. It takes so long, being accepted in village society (4)

17. One of a pair one is keeping in store? (8)

19. Sort of attaché of refinement (8)

21. How to get water out of part of typewriter (4)

22. Piece of film that goes at a fast rate (4)

23. Senior office-holder in church (5)

DOWN

1. I’m no cad maybe, but not settled in my home (7)

2. It is distinctly better to be one above (3)

3. Order one coin of a sort (5)

4. The dimension written out by the bard (7)

5. Cockney dog may sound like this bird (3)

6. Relaxed, a seed being knocked out (5) 29/8

10. A failure to make contact is wrong (5)

11. Take vengeance on the West: rake it out (5)

13. Note breve, so depicted (7)

14. It shows where one can drink, innings being disrupted (3,4)

16. Got porridge for mishandling Luger (5)

18. Nothing but idle maybe when intoxicated (5)

20. On which the supply is always to hand (3)

21. A measure of pressure in the saloon (3)