CRYPTIC

ACROSS

2. Informal greeting to a socialist one took on (5)

5. Billy the Kid, as a grown-up? (4)

7. Sort of steak to be taken with spirit, quietly (4)

8. Luring one by petting perhaps around beginning of May (8)

9. One becomes stouter as one completes the form (5,3)

11. Cabbage sounds as if it could be used as fuel (4)

12. Acrobats who pedal to the psychiatrists? (5,8)

15. There are birds that run in the

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17. A lengthy discourse from a bride, it might be (8)

19. Can try, in revolution, to be like a despot (8)

21. Say it if it’s time to stop pouring (4)

22. A sort of Communist it’s legally wrong to return (4)

23. Performer makes it coming on stage in the lobby (5)

DOWN

1. It’s our Eric who could have been the messenger (7)

2. Joint that is following the latest trends (3)

3. A riot may show how much to how many (5)

4. It is about the people of Medoc, so it may appear (7)

5. There is nothing taken from 5 but this weapon (3)

6. $ +! ; ; + make nothing of it (5)

10. Place a crop destroyer is

11. One who makes proclamations could put Eric right (5)

13. Can cede to the rise and fall of sound (7)

14. A living picture in blue at a medley (7)

16. Being over corporation for a month, he has an alternative (5)

18. Of course, it’s a sort of tie (5)

20. It is liable to be seen in a cheap tavern (3)

21. The reason it lacks energy in it being separated from curds (3)