ACROSS
- 1 Plate jumped (5)
- 4 Streams for them to teach in school? (7)
- 8 Gatherer had a general reorganization (7)
- 9 Does it have extra bite? (5)
- 10 Neat, like the sea's rise and fall? (4)
- 11 Guard who keeps his eye on the time? (8)
- 13 The right help for the incursion (4)
- 14 Heroic poem in the picture-book (4)
- 16 Grounds for stakes, perhaps (8)
- 17 Part of the betrothal festivities (4)
- 20 Voracious bird? (5)
- 21 Earnest oriental (7)
- 22 Dunderhead is made to go for refusal to conform (7)
- 23 Raised geraniums to conceal marshy grass (5)
DOWN
- 1 Thieving - like an accomplished pianist? (5-8)
- 2 Change to finish before noon (5)
- 3 The colour of the explosive around one? (4)
- 4 Gun between bricks? (6)
- 5 Peace ass - this is a maritime scene! (8)
- 6 Men dice, perhaps, when confined to a locality (7)
- 7 It could make the charge discountable (6,7)
- 12 Once evil, unlawful force (8)
- 13 Puts the proposal again and departs (7)
- 15 Winged member of religious body? (6)
- 18 In the lead - perhaps by this amount (5)
- 19 Is doubly an ancient deity (4)