CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 2. Wished for a little work he'd taken in (5) 5. In the belief a Keating is not the genuine thing (4)

7. Break off for a biscuit (4)

8. Dover, affected by return of war, will get in the red (8)

9. Federal legislature get cross, gen being given out (8)

11. Turn like the wind, ever-shifting (4) 12. Great and rapid increase for pair to line out (13)

15. Irish Protestant may be a drop-out (4) 17. See a Gulf adaptation of aircraft bodywork (8)

19. Part hearing maybe gets India out (8) 21. Some bananas that may be fingered (4)

22. You and I have a thousand, but are not strong (4)

23. It was the fashion to write with it on wax tablets (5) ▶ Down

1. Sincerity is able to appear sullen (7)

2. The fruit of the rose may be considered with-it (3)

3. Promise I'm up to leaving it if it's not verse (5)

4. One who applies bandages as it stands in the kitchen (7)

5. It's a craze that will lose colour endlessly (3)

6. Jack and king at the hub of the wheel (5) 10. Icy cold, I'd need a leg-up for a start (5) 11. It is absolutely necessary for Valentine to include it (5)

13. A decade when Fifi set the fashion for it (7)

14. Growing without chemicals gives corgi an alternative (7)

16. Awaken one, or give up the habit (5) 18. With a happy disposition when it isn't clouded over (5)

20. It may gall one if real kissing starts (3) 21. Colour a name for a boy, so to speak (3)