CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

7. Can't be wearied being late if ad is taken out (13)

8. In a way meant to last men pay rent – about a pound (11)

12. After a party, get a new slant on second childhood (6)

14. Depravity is evidently absent in the beginner (6)

16. Walked at length on the street – then took a bus perhaps (6)

18. The outcome of applying lustre to it (6) 19. Floss, we aver, can provide setting for cut blooms (6,5)

23. Allows things to stay as they are: doesn't touch oil supply (4,4,5)

Down

1. Break: picture it with a biscuit (4) 2. Struggle to see a member of the Upper House (4)

3. Harm done to a beastly mother with the years (6) 4. Homer is one to be readily fleeced (6) 5. Huge container with sulphur in it (4) 6. Modeller's material before 4 gets shot at (4)

9. Hold one spellbound having perhaps learnt to hold hydrogen (7) 10. Relaxation time is lure the East might afford (7)

11. A piece of money found in Saracen treasury (4)

12. How much is prescribed: it does vary (4) 13. An idol is to leave on the 1st December (3) 15. There's nothing you and I have to be indebted to (3)

17. Bingo legs make the team (6)

18. Abuse about shocking evil (6)

19. Not many – about fifty – went by air (4)

20. Building for drying nothing that sat around (4)

21. The only part of the foot to walk on (4)

22. Melody with lyric produced in unison, generally (4)