DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Kind of sketch that is on hand (9) 8. Timber from the Spanish capital of Madrid (3) 9. Puts too little emphasis on inferior members of the federation (11) 11. They provide transport for those who are late (7) 12. It's a rule for some of the more ignorant (5) 13. Islam's service book translated (6) 15. A clue's amended in part of a contract (6) 17. Sarah is coming back as a friend of Paul (5) 18. Say sect is transformed by feeling of exaltation (7) 20. They can't be regarded as beginners of course (3-8) 22. Current discharge in nuclear circuit (3) 23. He murders an alien about fifty (9)

Down

2. Part of the neolithic layer (3) 3. Brooks, the poet (5) 4. An expert in canvas-work (6) 5. Somehow alter nearly everybody associated with the side (7) 6. Give hand signals (11) 7. Fellows taken in by my lies somehow in a big way (9) 10. The hush that pervades the cemetery (4,7) 11. To me a shed could be a place to live (9) 14. Agrees to being dispatched in a ship (7) 16. One in an outstanding position (6) 19. It warns against a dangerous female (5) 21. Kind of whiskey imbibed by Harry Evans (3)