Gentle No. 3 — cryptic crossword

A gentle puzzle: 22 clues on a 9×9 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. Insect on the border makes a national song (6)
5. The church books reveal an American coin (4)
8. Cheeky tune from the great outdoors (5,3)
9. Cone smashed at one time (4)
10. Lots thrown about and mislaid (4)
14. Put energy in ten for a youngster (4)
16. With a fashionable beat (4)
18. Seeing that it is not cake covering (8)
20. Flog, or win over (4)
21. Set led astray by the first-born (6)

Down

1. Dreadful, or very great (5)
2. Match result, or something worn with a suit (3)
3. Repeat, or a sound in the hills (4)
4. New filling in beef was intended (5)
6. Cine broadcast is pleasant (4)
7. Golf peg with river inside makes an elm, perhaps (4)
11. Has snow blown about? (4)
12. Footwear from a small garden tool (4)
13. Let it be jumbled into a heading (5)
15. A strange thing in the hours of darkness (5)
17. Quiet and ill after a tablet (4)
19. Frozen water found in Atlantic expedition (3)

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