Across
Cross one river with a note (5)
One acted in variety show (8)
Fast moving drug dealers (5,9)
Force to put one means of transport before another (8)
Very occupied by intimate Japanese cult (6)
It's puzzling how gin and it came to be ordered (9)
Murphy's pile? (5)
Enquire in the backstreet for jobs (5)
Succeed in chase (4,5)
Sends away for books (6)
Store memoir up in a novel form (8)
Adam's apple? (9,5)
Frenzied macho types kept in check (8)
City editor taken in by the French (5)
Down
Rising from the ranks? (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Not sure what ‘from the ranks’ means, unless insurrection specifically means a military uprising of some sort. 2. APERITIFS . PARTIE(IF)S*. 3. ELDER . EL + RED<. 4. INELASTIC . ACTILINES*. 5. DUCK . ‘Get down!’. Also took me a while to realise that you get down (feathers) from a duck. 6. CHA-CHA-CHA . Cha = tea. 7. TITAN . TIT + A + N(orth). 9. COPPERSMITHS . COPPER + SMITHS. Smiths are ‘forgers’ because they use a forge. 13. MISERABLE . MISER + ABLE. 14. CAMEMBERT . CA(MEMBER)T. 16. ATTRIBUTE . double def. 20. DROVE . (lan)D ROVE(r). 22. OFFAL . OF + FAL. 23. EDGE . double def (sort of – both defs are the same sense really).
Drinks provided in riotous parties (9)
The Spanish red rose wine ingredients come from here (5)
Act I lines sadly lacking in flexibility (9)
Get down — from this? (4)
Repeated request for tea dance (3-3-3)
Giant bird on a pole (5)
Policeman gets a lead on forgers — metalworkers! (12)
Skinflint having talent for being unhappy (9)
One in the club has whip-round for cheese (9)
Property charge (9)
Took the wheel in a Land Rover (5)
Waste parts of Cornish river (5)
The advantage of keenness (4)
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