CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Agreement prepared for conveyance, we hear (4) 3 Sidesman? (8)

8 A complete defeat for the rabble (4)

9 Taking part in industrial unrest is attractive (8) 11 Frustrated – having been relieved of office? (12)

13 Trim the conifer (6)

14 Some of the doctored rumpunch put back to cause fatal results (6)

17 Would their activities end with a mating-call? (12) 20 Deliberate destruction of red coins (8)

21 Convivial association for the driver (4)

22 Opposed changing into a dress-tie (8)

23 What artists do to create an attraction (4)

DOWN

1 A delightful place to be is in a public promenade (8)

2 The kind of weight for one that sails into the fight! (7) 4 Gesture that produces court proceedings (6)

5 Describing the sort of figure that is eternally intriguing? (10) 6 Something that sticks in the back (5)

7 Not far from endless darkness (4)

10 Unearthly clothing to fit in the gaps (10)

12 Weapon to reach the other side of the arch (8)

15 He stays permanently healthy in revolutionary uprising (7)

16 A field of activity for a planet (6)

18 Among the smooth and silvery palms (5)

19 Mark shows unending alarm (4)