CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Rapid periods when one may deprive oneself of food (4-4)

7. A number of lions showing their amourpropre (5)

8. Droppings that are frozen (7) 9. Handcuff a fellow with torn lace (7) 10. What thief gets from a dacha ultimately (4)

12. Can use name with various shades of meaning (7)

14. Make off with rating the second energy departs (7)

17. A disturbance in which one is confined (4)

18. Departure of aircraft for a parody (4-3)

21. For lung it can be an eighth of a mile of displacement (7)

22. Hang on tightly to a sort of peach (5) 23. Looked down on the speeds I'd achieved (8)

Down

Scare caused by combat is about right (6) 2. It may suit slum to be something stirring one to action (8)

3. A hand-out that will satisfy the French (4) 14. He'll agree to say men are wrong (3-3) 5. Record is to be found in the situation of Washington (4)

6. Extension of collar one will almost move back (6)

7. A boat that can be made up in wood (7) 11. A non-amateur will yearn to spin it out (7)

13. Has the regulation of knobs, wheels and levers (8)

14. Can sit around and get up to tricks such as these (6)

15. With ‘flu, fed on a different sort of coarse wool cloth (6)

16. Frozen with cold if grid is adapted to it (6)

19. Give up some stinking work with wool (4) 20. Will make one lose one's footing on the journey (4)