CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. Wander around alternatively returning in the morning (4) 3. Reveal tragic RIP pledge is weakened (8) 8. Knot is done (4) 9. Sailor gets thrown can in the eye which puts him out of action (8) 11. Become conceited so better report it to the principal (2,2,4,4) 13. In hide, coy shooters will attract ducks with them (6) 15. A political leader gets given fruit it would seem (6) 17. Devoted to literary pursuits - like the postman (3,2,7) 20. With enthusiasm and then whisked away (8) 21. Search for a grooming accessory (4) 22. Tumbler in which to keep optical orb when not in use? Now that would be a spectacle! … (8) 23. … What? It will melt (4) Down 1. Enrage Ed, perhaps. What a rebel (8) 2. Go over the books of the gold code, so to speak (5) 4. Thief leaps from the barber’s pole (6) 5. The way of the secretly deranged person? (10) 6. Leaking connection (7) 7. Pulled and tied (4) 10. No loyal imp could possibly consist of more than two names (10) 12. Weapon of the maestro violinist? (8) 14. A cup of plain chocolate without platoon (7) 16. The perils of these tools (6) 18. The era of the strange poet endlessly going to church (5) 19. Remove act from Castile Island (4)

Yesterday

Across: 1. Litters, 5. Calla, 8. Grist, 9. Run-down, 10. Comparatively, 11. Modern, 12. Ceased, 15. Refrigerators, 18. Imitate, 19. Inane, 20. Rusty, 21. Lunches. Down: 1. Logic, 2. Trimmed, 3. Extraordinary, 4. Spread, 5. Consideration, 6. Loose, 7. Annoyed, 11. Merrier, 13. Stomach, 14. Reveal, 16. Fails, 17. Seeps.