Puzzle Solutions June 2019

Across

• 1 They listen very closely so rapped verse must be garbled (13)
• 8 Wear nose or I panic (7)
• 9 Freeze National Insurance for old Britons! (5)
• 10 Neck and neck? Fixed! (4)
• 11 Genuine about half-perfect revenge (8)
• 13 Find a sense of purpose under canvas? (6)
• 14 Uncross if your attributes stiffen (6)
• 17 President of Switzerland to broadcast on British island (8)
• 19 Ugly sister left Italian cheese for French writer (4)
• 21 Oil beaten into excellent garlic mayonnaise (5)
• 22 They are inclined to bring about realistic change after the first two walk out (7)
• 23 Collection of criminal photographs regularly goes abroad (6,7)

Down

• 1 Method of killing a cleric thrice failed (8,5)
• 2 Intense, avant-garde novelist binned first part of script (7)
• 3 Small family film (4)
• 4 Warden called the Queen (6)
• 5 Bloom's put the edge into plain speaking (8)
• 6 Start's put back for seven planes (5)
• 7 Belter's strapping frame mentioned by Spooner (7,6)
• 12 Elton covers rock singer is to revive (8)
• 15 Worship solid ground that is outside (7)
• 16 Removing hair growth (6)
• 18 In the company of a thousand working for good (5)
• 20 Wailing, perhaps, with everyone? (4)