CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Getting stuck in accommodation (7)

5. Cassandra Peabody’s place has a curtain (5)

8. Loiter behind the track (5)

9. Accidentally ignored the African race (7)

10. Stir provision made by caller to lock-up (6,7)

11. Having this valuable find you may want to get gun (6)

13. Find understanding in gypsy cheekiness (6)

16. A talk likewise about radio telephones (6,7)

20. March out of changing room misconstrued as a continuing saga (2,5)

21. Sort of green (5)

22. She comes from Alaska rendezvous (5)

23. Tirades about position on horseback (7)

Down

1. Ease and allow to stand (3,2)

2. Sketch is attractive (7)

3. Northern abode found inside Danzig lookout (5)

4. Avenge blunder in Alpine city (6)

5. Princess jokes about condensations we hear (7)

6. What’s at the end of a leg is about to happen (5)

7. Guarantee the last Cockney nag in the row? (7)

11. Roy knew about a big apple (3,4)

12. Publication about idiot in France (7)

14. Wine from China? It must be a red (7)

15. A flower part has a mark of infamy (6)

17. A large one that’s usually 18 (5)

18. Weightless, trifling but happy (5)

19. Vegetable nationality (5)