Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

7. Part of shoe which cannot be lower (5)

8. People demonstrating about Reds, initially, and Tories in disorder (7)

9. Former lover; a member the French use as a paragon (7)

10. Fruit, black at one end, is vertical (5)

12. Warmth of bid for Tyneside ship (10)

15. Pillion has unusual handy decoration (4,6)

18. React badly, but nevertheless provide (5)

19. Boxer in small lorry has time to be brave (7)

21. Songster has confused brawl with American casualty (7)

22. New publication (5)

DOWN

1. Smashing! Smashing coins very fast (10)

2. Flower arrangement given shower (5)

3. Professional gets quiet support (4)

4. Father has one with close pal (6)

5. Cares about nothing, member corresponds (8)

6. Rough, crude, press chief made cuts (7)

11. Beats males out of iron, tin, etc. (4,6)

13. Ten, cheeky, enter cathedral city with great skill (8)

14. Henry is conservative in days gone by (7)

16. Uniform of employees active by the railway (6)

17. Oddly crave cut slices (5)

20. To join chain, left printing medium (4)