CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

2. Gun to fire by mistake if left inside (5) 5. Swelling may be result of minor collision (4) 7. Sort of nose one may cold-shoulder (4) 8. Sends Ark out when night is upon us (8) 9. An entrancing sound visitor may put his finger on (8) 11. Pawn the white Rhine wine (4) 12. Before the gun, it may come to the support of a sprinter (8,5) 15. Head-cover for chorus-leader getting the bird (4) 17. Euclidean study might go with my tree arrangement (8) 19. Told nine to change, not being disposed to activity (8) 21. Where literary Vicar would sound like an ass (4) 22. Figure worshipped by one with an incomplete puppet (4) 23. Like beach also found in Surrey, West and East (5)

Down

1. Associate with somebody like Albert (7) 2. Tease one for being involved in chest expansion (3) 3. Newspaper had a box for the sweetmeat (5) 4. How to put lager up to keep sound out (7) 5. Bordeaux is noted initially for wine in store (3) 6. Notes are written in sound art form (5) 10. Dewy look in tenor or alto (5) 11. Create a fifty-fifty split (5) 13. Means of entering French artiste's first sketch (7) 14. Run Act I out and bring it (7) 16. Admitted one had a proprietor (5) 18. Note may have been played loudly time and time again (5) 20. A wiseacre removed top of 15 (3) 21. Horse that's reddish brown may sound like a hound (3)