DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Boisterous female to treat man badly about the beginning of the game (9) 8. A politician producing a current measure (3) 9. No dieting is required for dyspepsia (11) 11. Heeds the sound of fiftyone guns (7) 12. Not expressed by one encompassed by discretion (5) 13. See 15 Across 15 &13Ac. This enables one to cross without being seen (6,6) 17. Because a television is something worth having (5) 18. He makes a charge (7) 20. Returned to one's original state (11) 22. It is put back among the cards (3) 23. Somehow estranges those who get the stripes (9)

Down

2. For a long time the leading characters of every overseas nation (3) 3. Fish measured to some degree (5) 4. Help a vessel before it's wrecked (6) 5. A prickly object taken from the list (7) 6. Group of implements used for handwork (8,3) 7. Protects a witness, in a way (9) 10. Essential parts of the Book of Revelation? (11) 11. One qualified in book-keeping (9) 14. Take a month over the composition 'The Sea Monster' (7) 16. Get the better of a teacher (6) 19. It slopes down to part of the beach in Eastbourne (5) 21. Newt abandoned when decapitated (3)