Cryptic crossword
ACROSS
1. Instruct the others all round in self-control (9)
8. The bearing of one who succeeds, we hear (3)
9. This could surely be used for a spell (11)
11. Performer disturbed by air test (7)
12. Dispatches mail for appointments (5)
13. It’s used for painting the sails of a ship (6)
15. To promote, choose one before others (6)
17. Nautical cry coming from a street around Virginia (5)
18. This may show high temperature when sluices are affected (7)
20. Coach charges (7,4)
22. Sounds like the second person to provide farm stock (3)
23. African trumpeters? (9)
DOWN
2. Someone’s age revealed inside (3)
3. Makes a call for some jewellery (5)
4. More than one reflection is written about poor game (6)
5. The excursionist is a dancer (7)
6. When they run out the eggs should be cooked! (5,2,4)
7. Rates revised about certain valuable items (9)
10. A shrub bed with a single flower (11)
11. Gabriel located in northern Russia (9)
14. The position of the rider making a pace (7)
16. Scoring implement needed for the clerk (6)
19. Part of a meal unchanged (5)
21. What to do with seventyfive per cent of the flesh! (3)