Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. It can take the pressure (9)

8. Employ American English (3)

9. What a motoring school should do for a railwayman (5,6)

11. Indeed a song is held up (7)

12. Rule in wet weather, say (5)

13. Votes I fixed for the Russian (6)

15. Editorial chief (6)

17. Tests in English before Xmas, perhaps (5)

18. Do well to follow (7)

20. The Italian record I name at the end of July without reason (11)

22. For example, love a selfimage (3)

23. Possibly lost again in yearning for the past (9)

DOWN

2. Chest expander? (3) 3. Dough or bread (5) 4. Long angry speech from one in commerce (6) 5. Concerning poetry? Just the opposite (7) 6. Galloping consumption? (7,4) 7. Observing a communist becoming angry (6,3) 10. Left the French without flying relief (11) 11. He gives out various red spines (9) 14. Poles in trouble with

Greek character (7) 16. Customs man who is wise in America (6) 19. Clown with a drink (5) 21. Hawaiian garland or the

French one (3)