The Sea No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (The Sea) 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. Coronet one discovered in Scarlett’s home (5)
4. Provisions left out of floods (5)
7. Master chef, explorer of the South Seas (7,4)
10. Weights recorded in the logbook I lost (5)
11. Posted perfume, by the sound of it (4)
12. A pound, say, and a shilling for pins (4)
14. Pulses of ecstasy in dance step (4)
16. Fury as gear slips (4)
18. Typical! Posh Australian returns with a learner (5)
20. Ghost ship where my secret ale was brewed (4,7)
22. Fish stank (5)
23. Spots of damp, rain or perhaps sleet, initially (5)

Down

1. Go about in riding gear (4)
2. Fruit that chap pleasantly shares (5)
3. A huge ‘Hold it!’ from the bosun (5)
4. Cooler supporter (3)
5. Old region has bracing sea air (5)
6. Rice wines for name-dropping snakes (5)
8. Passage from island, we hear (5)
9. Shades of crumbled stone (5)
12. Meadow, south-east, for rent (5)
13. Good king to dine? Terrific! (5)
14. Afterthought about posh politician’s shoes (5)
15. Eager, strangely, to see eye to eye (5)
16. Held sway, but regretted taking on learner (5)
17. Relish in big US tour (5)
19. Allows service replays (4)
21. Unions back reduction (3)

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