Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Floury pudding is no good (4)

3. Elizabethan sailor after fellow producing poisonous plant (8)

8. It indicates academic approval for the moment (4)

9. Criterion for those who are flagging! (8)

11. How those on the track compete with a fair chance of success (2,3,7)

13. We’re on a new arrangement before this (6)

14. From where the captain controls the game (6)

17. Gloomy record playing at such an hour! (12)

20. Communication about the opening of unsold property (8)

21. Part of the forest in the shade (4)

22. So threat is altered for one providing variable resistance (8)

23. Nick to get on the move (4)

DOWN

1. End-piece in legal document is itemised (8)

2 & 18Dn. Confront the children – don’t avoid the point in dispute (4,3,5)

4. Crafty redhead trapped in devious fault (6)

5. Where courses are taken, it may well be a mess! (6,4)

6. Tail of chinchilla caught in trap once more (5)

7. Activated dynamo to whirl round inside (4)

10. Complete black suit needed by one who goes round the course (3,2,5)

12. He keeps on saying it’s a firearm (8)

15. He makes records as the days go by (7)

16. Game in disarray – this needs some solving (6)

18. See 2 Down

19. Potentate produces eastern border rising (4)

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