CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. This nothing,Use the precious hearthmy friend! stoneto sack(4)

3. is worththe team (8)

9. Explain former weight (7)

10. This state makes sense (5)

11. Acquitted without costs? (4,2,6)

13. So tube can be blunt (6)

15. Fight for broken tablet (6)

17. Air post? (5,7)

20. I bail out, showing I was somewhere else (5)

21. Use of smoke in worship will anger (7)

22. Greet sir as he marks it? (8)

23. Cupid was irritated on returning (4)

DOWN

1. Swamp with stream of bowling changes? (8)

2. Enough beer for parliamentarian to have around (5)

4. Install in conduit (6)

5. Average car tax wastefulness (12)

6. Intelligent grasp can be seen (7)

7. It’s calm at dusk (4)

8. Depressed because has no liquor left? (3,2,7)

12. Illiberality causes girl to be in a muddle (8)

14. It’s tantalizing what the kettle does after a meal (7)

16. Yearn to find a steeple (6)

18. The interior of a ruin, nervously approached (5)

19. Soft tune or two (4)