ACROSS
- 1 Take early action to prevent store being demolished in the autumn (9)
- 8/21 It may be used for cutting the pack (3,3)
- 9 In favour of calling for incitement (11)
- 11 Dead drunk in South Street and in the worst of spirits (7)
- 12 Result from being seen to change about mid-January (5)
- 13 Stampede forward to the long grass (6)
- 15 Battered sunhat found in island off the French coast (6)
- 17 Kind of lock used for a gun (5)
- 18 Tom said it could be an ear infection (7)
- 20 All are quite confused when describing a triangle (11)
- 22 Belonging to a man back in the sixties, I hear (3)
- 23 See ten ABs who have gone AWOL, maybe (9)
DOWN
- 2 It's used on any river, initially (3)
- 3 Said to be made by a wheelwright (5)
- 4 Makes suitable to be included in commercials (6)
- 5 Takes one's time in coming from Estoril (7)
- 6 Discovers a rosette is well received (5,6)
- 7 Given further medical attention, but made no progress (9)
- 10 Rows are splitting the fraternities - discipline needed (11)
- 11 Put up tough opposition in exhibition bout (4,5)
- 14 Orange pottery from Japan (7)
- 16 Mabel's on the move, but doesn't hurry (6)
- 19 Group with fashionable following became prevalent (3,2)
- 21 See 8 Across