Across
23d
Retirement habit: pays off to carry stick (7)
Contact the Guardian about job centre that's unfeeling (7)
Possibly keen to do this vocally? (5)
Unscrupulous opportunist immersing copper-backed tin in drink (9)
Bill & Co limp off to quiet do (10)
Submerge head and keep under flat-bottomed boat (4)
Inspector May's false subconscious memory (12)
One means of improving athletic performance: live with military officer somewhere beyond Mars! (8,4)
6d
Play card with real finesse (4,4)
Male only wants car that's big of its kind and aggressive-looking (4,6)
Only females love males to wear father's spectacles (9)
Trainee state police officer cut short (5)
Ends let out and pressed close (7)
Unexpectedly present a twisty firework (7)
Down
Ornamental garden plant — holding one, state politicians squeal (6,5)
Jack (lightweight) gets a shock (6)
Drive home, back into awful torment in part of Paris (10)
Forecaster lives up near far end of Hull (5)
Tip: start to search (search methodically) for a kind of cap (9)
See 21
Past players rather dull? (8)
Cover up of certain features of Cromwell's reversal at Derby? (5,3)
Come to a conclusion about Uncle Dicky, social media promoter (10)
In-depth disheartened author's novel means of putting characters on paper (9)
Recoil at political bias employed by one who serves? (8)
Most attractive types, those basking on the beach, lapping up temperature (8)
Set about catching wild dog that's hard going to put away (6)
A month with English theatre's top group (6)
See 1
Pass round women's head covering (4)
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