CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
2. One creating currency conversion for Germany around the East
(5)
5. Linden Lee curtailed when I’m involved (4)
7. How play will start as nothing with author (4)
8. A blue rag may be used, but that’s open to discussion (8)
9. Moral air comes adrift with such bearings (8)
11. Damage has been tailed off by the Jollies (4)
12. The Great Fire made one study standard food allowance (13)
15. Two from Paris, endlessly confused (4)
17. Gains, one is told, for such as Elijah (8)
19. Has to sin in order to create a sensation (8)
21. Something true bill one is not fit to hold it (4)
22. Where cows in Derby require it to be revealed (4)
23. Crop idly distributed around end of June (5)
DOWN
1. Material for paper: set short paragraph, nothing more (7)
2. Knight perhaps where Douglas is concerned (3)
3. Tommy’s colour may soundly fit ignition lock (5)
4. Constant use of a lug: err in turning it (7)
5. A short jump in the open country (3)
6. It will start mastication with oral movement (5)
10. Tender for possible inclusion of iron (5)
11. Put in the shading to get it out of the egg (5)
13. Make more sound if my pal can make it (7)
14. Constructed to help sight of Capitol, it moves about (7)
16. Try metal like, for argument’s sake, its makeup (5)
18. Yellow shown by country’s first hero to turn (5)
20. Seaweed with a gold additive number (3)
21. Provided nourishment for agent in America, in short (3)