Featured crossword No 23

Across

1. In London centre long ago (4)
2. Ordinary person joining railway crew on the previous night (8)
3. Opening with greeting about Truss oddly (6)
4. Expert group of spies caught by absurd past lies trashing America (10)
5. Settling in the East near leaderless country (11)
6. Fancy new movement blowing money (6)
7. Reportedly dispatch Inuit transport maybe (6)
8. Connective tissue tense with limit to extension ultimately (6)
9. Rough at intervals, mutters erratically with a disinhibiting agent possibly (5,5)
10. Draw a line against appalling rule (6)
11. Idealists with 500 boring instruments (8)
12. Perhaps Dot and Barb love sharing beers (6)
13. Destroys targets (4)

Down

1. Patrols area around building eliminating hooliganism essentially (6)
2. DC train driver from abysmal Green Line starting late (8)
3. Regularly oversee daunting manoeuvres with risk-taking perhaps (11)
4. Light entertainment and limitless dope before races, the focus of Man (8)
5. Troublesome tenor lecherous (6)
6. Petty details coming from four involved in endless experiment (6)
7. Insists upon retreating without advance force (6)
8. Some tacit symbolism around spiritualist (6)
9. Coat carried by miserable man emigrating from the South (6)
10. Writer not defending atrocious vile son (8)
11. More than one motto from promotion grows old (6)
12. Troy with piercing headed for excitement (6)
13. One readily fooled and confused, say, breaking electronic sign (4,4)