DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Have an affair at the golf club? (4,6)

7. Junction or church found with a flashlight (5)

8. Girl takes on employees for women's work (7)

10. Time off man takes having got a rise (8) 11. Plant on hand (4) 13. Many unusual pleas for trees (6) 15. Delivery with which a cricket match cannot start (2-4)

17. The fuss also about the departmental head (2-2) 18. Patterns used for part of a church (8) 21. Enlist a revolutionary for striking (7)

22. List of furniture (5)

23. Sponger at liberty before a terrible ordeal (10)

Down

1. Where dad carries a weapon in Italy (5)

2. Sportsmen allowed in staggered heats (8)

3. Anyhow dad was in the lead and got confused (6)

4. Love to employ this runner (4)

5. Falls over a grain one finds (7)

6. Draws least teams out (10)

9. Relative branches (6,4)

12. Suggested to return and get duped outside (8)

14. Drugs-seller on a bike, say (7)

16. Partly treating rot to reveal the cave (6)

19. Some remember an old flame (5)

20. Only a lake (4)