CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 & 4 Ac Hip, hip, hooray, for instance! (5,2,5)

8 Showing concentration for tennis, maybe, before the end of the game (7)

9 French names embracing the right standards (5)

10 Bygone career that gives the clergyman no alternative (4) 11 Young attendants required around a ship for sea trips (8) 13 See 14 Across

14 & 13 Ac Ideal men preparing a source of metal (4,4)

16 & 17 Ac Take a risk and ardently indulge in the game (4,4,4)

20 Water plant for southern border (5)

21 Undefined number of coppers, we hear, will produce the charge (7)

22 A treacherous creature could be present (7)

23 React badly to a sign of omission (5)

DOWN

1 Where victims were bound to be punished (8,5)

2 Evaluates payments on property (5)

3 Decline to produce washing equipment (4)

4 & 15Dn Traffic arrangement for the single-minded? (3-3,6)

5 This contains tea, we hear, in a mixture of arsenic! (8)

6 Confused grandee in a passion (7)

7 Impetuous words of the doctor diagnosing measles? (4,9)

12 No specified situation when year is out of joint (8)

13 Take no direct course to the sea (7)

15 See 4 Down

18 Victor, losing his head, makes a shot wide of the bull (5) 19 Stirring story needing a bit of pep, I consider (4)