ACROSS
- 1 Slight mistiming for supporters to leave the ring (7,3)
- 7 A bit of tranquillity, say (5)
- 8 Go back again with poetry (7)
- 10 Huge deficit in fossil fuel (8)
- 11 Fever amongst the beleaguered garrison (4)
- 13 Production of a money-spinner, for example? (6)
- 15 Cooking vessel test in the larder (6)
- 17 Eager and curious in the past to reach Gateshead (4)
- 18 He'd not to turn out at the exact time (2,3,3)
- 21 Tone down a medium for the painter (7)
- 22 Join in some of the fun: it eases tension (5)
- 23 Attractive source of water, or very nearly (6,4)
DOWN
- 1 Explosive food container? (5)
- 2 Group of men positioned for board meeting (5,3)
- 3 Wary on forming national football team, perhaps.... (6)
- 4 .... were it not for goalkeeper's successful effort (4)
- 5 Sort of piano that shouldn't go wrong? (7)
- 6 Room for cunning construction of unearthly machine? (10)
- 9 Alternate always with revised theory (5,5)
- 12 Bedlam created by crazy MPs? (8)
- 14 Flowering plant is a big mistake? (7)
- 16 Is it difficult to be restless, then? (6)
- 19 Doctor unwell? What a bore! (5)
- 20 Throw things at animal skin (4)