Across 1 Joining activity in the forest? (8) 5 Decline to give work to the doctor (4) 9 Girl needing daily refreshment (5) 10 Hold out, even with the head cut off (7) 11 Urgent requirement for an iron? (8,4) 13 Part that should be easy to grasp (6) 14 Performs a new ascent (6) 17 Excellent victories give rise to taxation (7,5) 20 Urchin learning to beg (7) 21 Aim to include me? Correct (5) 22 After midnight, general enjoyment (4) 23 Deadly feud conducted with relative bitterness? (8)

Down 1 Great Chinese build-up (4) 2 Scrap an out-of-date golf club (3,4) 3 A thin mixture is a poor answer to the problem (4,8) 4 Mend a broken marriage? (6) 6 Plunder Winchester for example (5) 7 One who takes off from Port Said (8) 8 Iron workers on next year's work are progressing well (7,5) 12 Currently offensive? (8) 15 Make believe (7) 16 Do some asset-stripping to run church (6) 18 Young insects raised up on pea soup (5) 19 It is thought to be almost perfect (4)

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