CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 2. Little credit upper-class doctor gets for such small comfort (5)

5. Achieve victory with key attacker on side (4)

7. Part of a key will stop the blood (4) 8. They dance together, and in business they're associated (8)

9. Made one's way to being put to rights (8)

11. Give impression of being heartless woman in writing back (4) 12. Similarly afflicted where bow and stroke are concerned (2,3,4,4) 15. Requests removal of top of barrels (4) 17. The very least inkling of an idea couldn't be more far-out (8)

19. Shoes showing sole signs of use? (8) 21. Sound of culpability has a golden look to it (4)

22. Mates who have returned to strike open-handed (4)

23. Time to follow overly sentimental message (5)

Down

1. Something on the West, even poetically, is interposed (7)

2. An English river has its shaft in the engine (3)

3. One of those things to be down on when one's poor (5)

4. Drilled, so am without leaders, which is a tedious thing (7)

5. Successfully strive for three-quarters of this number across (3)

6. It may convey a message from an inner vehicle (5)

10. Longs for Swiss registration in giving up the sea (5)

11. I must leave Tobias turning a wooden shoe (5)

13. There's too much water breaking along the shore to tie up (7)

14. Ratings love a change that will grant them pardon (7)

16. Something that holds coupon filled out with the last ahead (5)

18. Half the Summer gone – gone, on quitting – so amalgamate (5)

20. Try to get money and listen in to telephone conversation (3)

21. A narrow passage to prepare fish for cooking (3)