Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. He would need long legs to be a flier (5)

4. She expects to be suitably groomed (7)

8. Where patients look for convalescence? (7)

9. Please become void (5)

10. Make path from pass, for example (4)

11. Communist loaned nothing strongly suggestive (8)

13. Cease putting the crockery back (4)

14. No comeback for American responsibility (4)

16. Omit to indicate a holiday is not possible (5,3)

17. 100 each - that’s what the umpire says (4)

20. Rubber country? (5) 21. Producing strokes at the wheel? (7)

22. Everybody has gone wrong about an old ship (7)

23. Crop needs wind initially, then warmth (5)

DOWN

1. Twin in looks assisting to get twice the normal portion (6,7)

2. Depressions in the hills? (5)

3. The length of an enclosure? (4)

4. More fixed more quickly? (6)

5. Completely circular on every side (3,5)

6. Tree gets almost icy newspaper notice (7)

7. Illumination of potentially shocking loss of weight? (8,5)

12. Reporting of 100 who are too old (8)

13. Lads can produce malicious gossip (7)

15. To rub up study would be a heavy task (6) 18. How an increase in pay

may present itself (5)

19. You and I four up? What a prospect! (4)