Detective Fiction No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Detective Fiction) standard puzzle: 28 clues on a 11×11 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Power units: Thai temples keep time (5)
4. Recap botched heist (5)
7. Grass up and publish mark left at the scene (11)
10. Sherlock's sister returns by herself (5)
11. Concert for a thousand (4)
12. Upset boss cries (4)
14. Stray loses right to remain (4)
16. Low-born fool (4)
18. Let in some bad mites (5)
20. Nudge and bribe: that's graft (5,6)
22. Idiot to moon about the river (5)
23. Three knocked out by anaesthetic (5)

Down

1. We accept one condition for her indoors (4)
2. Pavarotti, say, gets the drift (5)
3. Cook for a small side (5)
4. Trophy for chumps, oddly (3)
5. Starchy duck has the first part in a duet (5)
6. Tries different ceremonies (5)
8. Contribution of the fashionable set (5)
9. Grisly, but holding the line with honour (5)
12. Digging tool for Hammett's private eye (5)
13. Foundation degree for sister (5)
14. Second wave from a kind of whale (5)
15. Warning light: walker ignores learner (5)
16. Grab loosely, with energy, and shove (5)
17. Hit record to break (5)
19. Drop a level, we hear (4)
21. Triumph buried in slow innings (3)

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