CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Memorial to miners' union curtailed in a trice (8)

7. Effect a remedy around five, but don't go straight (5)

8. Dealing with the Sunday joint is a sculptor's work (7)

9. Felt blindly around forbidden turn and put things together (7)

10. It's black to the poet, being drawn from the bonfire (4)

12. Donkey-coloured, is given back indeed and deprived of covering (7)

14. Affected modesty with company? Yes, and both Poles somehow (7)

17. Final letter returned mineral aggregate: there's nothing to it (4)

18. Set of knives, forks and spoons, and place to eat at work (7)

21. Given that half the team is involved in magnificent setting (7)

22. Impose bounds on our first motorway in being illuminated (5)

23. Was correspondingly removed? (8) ▶ Down

1. Being the object of scorn in a simple dress, but topless (6)

2. Dart reaching end of tunnel in New York, just (8)

3. Mother isn't out, Chief! (4)

4. Horse pike kept on at (6)

5. What rider may have in hand is a season's yield (4)

6. Docked the opposite in the garden? (6)

7. Tooth has come in for some repair, like reigning monarch (7)

11. Don't allow it to veer about in pint one has left (7)

13. One on board will go straight to the gold (8)

14. Crumple the shellfish (6)

15. One run not spliced (6)

16. Disordered disorder, without hesitation: it's squalid! (6)

19. One's calling might mean alteration (4)

20. Fish top of brook with a fool (4)