Standard No. 4 — cryptic crossword

A 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. Our GP arranged for the band (5)
4. Parking row makes for a practical joke (5)
7. Pantry diner cooked up an evening do with food (6,5)
10. Reams, muddled, make a slur (5)
11. Mars, disturbed, gives weapons (4)
12. Adorn the ship's floor (4)
14. Learner has an objective — to advance (4)
16. Working for the church at one time (4)
18. Right in a broken oath is the Law (5)
20. New pipe in here, badly fitted, produces adrenaline (11)
22. Note the last word turned round for an injection (5)
23. Commercial placed in Rio for the wireless (5)

Down

1. Dogs running in the upper gallery (4)
2. Admit, er, one is the proprietor (5)
3. Piers, reportedly, are lords (5)
4. Music for the old man (3)
5. Unusually eager to concur (5)
6. King and a natter in a small craft (5)
8. One wizard produces a picture (5)
9. New mead brewed and christened (5)
12. Put on gold to become a benefactor (5)
13. Drug taken in by the family is pure (5)
14. Fib in good English, my lord (5)
15. One caught in the snout makes a din (5)
16. Alternative: get her to change (5)
17. Spilt cider — and wept (5)
19. The woman's love for a champion (4)
21. Age partly captured by the camera (3)

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