Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1 Umpteen from a Berlin menu (11)

9 News of Italian returning before bell 10 Groan about music producer (5)

11 Disgusting bird, it’s said (4)

12 They offer protection from French 14 Kate’s chopped up post (5) sounds crooked (7) dealers (8) 15

Avoid having leader (5)

Greek hero incline (8)

Moan about Middle Eastern country Sway, as small bird’s limb (5) Dictators bellow when imprisoned awful sty (7)

Easy target, not nought (7,4)

DOWN

2 Bound to change for sure (2,5)

3 Part of the arm grabbed by powerful nation (4)

Festival when eggs? (6)

Chiefly describing the highest? (5,3) Reason to have record, I see (5) Rod’s employees (5) Architect’s sound bite (5) Channel brightness due to access (8)

Boy’s small round (7)

Fail, as false pleas (5)

Unit of force of small weight gas (6)

Mustang’s tail covering worry (5) One in Panama, perhaps, acquiring one Caribbean country (5) British plug and nail (4) 20

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23 awful gets sportsmen standing diner car, duel top scoffs medic with for

European score last heavenly brought in round of in (4) of inert