Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

7 One predicting nothing, clear fraud (6) 8 City packed in box for days (6) 9 Herb for mafia boss in Essex (8) 10 Note short animal above canopy (4) 11 Some older van fuel (4)

12 Grey finished with actors (8) 14 Bald? Henry close! (8)

16 Very long sentence in Virgil, I feel! (4)

18 Holiday complex, better around beginning of May (4) 20 Hypothetically misconstrued the irony (2,6)

22 Middle of recent disaster (6) 23 One cleaner’s covering seating (6)

DOWN

1 Elaborate on rate changing (6) 2 Vie! Reach! Perhaps become the winner (8)

3 Reportedly, the man would obey (4) 4 Legion loses Liberal aristocrat (8) 5 Some seafarers a long way off (4) 6 Naughty children don’t start making mistakes (6)

12 Indeed, so awfully biased (3-5) 13 The way in which you’ll have to reverse (3-2-3) 15 Humiliated as getting into a cot (6) 17 Expensive material, raw mineral, creating wild excitement (6) 19 Head of Estonia to hit back (4) 21 Implied I left diplomacy (4)