Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 & 4Ac. The position of one who has risen to be chief feller? (3,2,3,4) 8. No pleasant sight when I take off, one hears (7) 9. She has ceased to be engaged, so she gets another ring (5) 10. Exterminated the French

in the south-west (4) 11. Tom’s fare? (4,4) 13. See 2 Down 14. Confront a group of

huntsmen (4) 16. A hundred on a search for wartime acquisition (8) 17. Show shortage of breath,

as smokers do (4) 20. Used some oil - from a

seed? (5) 21. Could this cause one tail

to be wagged? (7) 22. Heated speeches could

be aired in backstreet (7) 23. In the kindergarten seeming far from relaxed (5)

DOWN

1. Search trustee, maybe,

for jewel box (8,5) 2 & 13Ac. Despite what is heard, much of this was done in wartime (9) 3. One of sixty-six in a chain (4) 4. Entrap in a different way! (6) 5. Seem to get upset about the manager - does relief work (8) 6. Before the end of the flight, airmen changed clothing (7) 7. Its live rail goes across the fields (8,5) 12. Experienced, but no

longer allowed to fly (8) 13. I’d sworn to rearrange

the royal house (7) 15. A vessel holding fixed

financial advantages (6) 18. The plumber’s joint

industrial body (5) 19. The History of Pennsylvania by Goodman (4)