Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1. Keeping a hosiery item (8)

5. Morning doctor’s rounds? (4) 9. Language some Kurd uses (4)

10. Gave a ‘present’ (8)

11. Five-one and it’s all over for the Birmingham team (5)

12. Come to understand lies are awful (7)

13. Unwanted possession of a rare animal (5,8)

18. Gin or ale ordered in local (8)

19. Terribly gory wild party (4)

20. Minotaur-killer who brought the things here to us (7)

21. Steel produced in the rain and snow (5)

22. Furniture item some craftsman made skilfully (4)

23. Guess I am in the class (8)

DOWN

2. Spoil the sailor with a broken shin (7) 3. A brilliant stroke allowed in poetry (7) 4. A result USA can use to establish cause of death (7,6) 6. Forced a man to drink (7) 7. Strange people getting a letter concerning scrap (7) 8. Depart secretly, having camped out (6) 13. The least successful senior journalist’s yarn (7) 14. Singer’s awful entrance (7) 15. Secretly became union members (6) 16. Home office breaking mould to find gangster (7) 17. Ignore Glen, etc., perhaps? (7)