Cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1. Nurses before making claims (8) 5. Good man taking measure to stop (4) 9. Sedentary surroundings in paradise (4) 10. One involved in illegal union agreement (8) 11. Criticise one about causing alarm (5) 12. Point to two men thrown out (7) 13. Regular payment demanding uprightness (8,5) 18. Madness – yet hair’s arranged neatly (8) 19. Aim of hungry American miss (4) 20. Unusually verbose note (7) 21. The rubbish some people do eat (5) 22. Salvation Army has quiet band (4) 23. Red cases broken up and embraced (8)

DOWN

2. Painter and girl get worker glowing (7) 3. Strain of notes in disorder (7) 4. Where you see the screen through a screen? (5-2-6) 6. T.T.’s wide bend snaked around (7) 7. Killer in the ring (7) 8. State has only one company making material (6) 13. Where fish are divided into classes? (7) 14. Helps fool to be first to the pole (7) 15. Doctor at New Year is miserable (6) 16. Looks at red rags somehow (7) 17. Test record up East, for instance (7)

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