CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Demand sex appeal if you want to look for trouble (3,3,2)

7. Then, dose endlessly the ones there (5)

8. Furious, and reddish-blue around the North (7)

9. At entering cricket team without tail-ender, give it uplift (7)

10. Show Burmese Siamese (4)

12. Upland torn by rush of water (7)

14. The rotter lost his head carrying flame perhaps (7)

17. Begin with what anyone may enter (4)

18. Such as Flashman that is surrounded by rising speculators (7)

21. Inflict pain or appear in utter discord (7)

22. Courageous, topless – but with fortune smiling at one (5)

23. They are shortly instrumental in making up parcel list so (8) DOWN

1. Notice that goods are coming, being sought from counsellor (6)

2. Is getting tied up with nautical speed at sound of bell (8)

3. Circle the East by getting round it and do as ordered (4)

4. Where to find camper concentrating (6)

5. No wakeful state of the company Mother has joined (4)

6. There’s something wrong if one will be a renegade (6)

7. Among those people mineral rock is something to be proved (7)

11. In a trifling way type lit out (7)

13. Sound out, putting them in (8)

14. Writes maliciously of last of the bills to be compounded (6)

15. Noise as of taffeta coming from Ulster possibly (6)

16. If not, the international statesmen will get fewer (6)

19. A bit of hair enabling one to climb along the canal (4)

20. Seed covering quietly slipped from a month in autumn (4)