Quick crossword No 284

Across

1. Pride of international team (5)
2. Writer associated with piece about one Antarctic resident (7)
3. Surprised because I dropped heavy weight first (10)
4. Objective of treatment for pimple was just what the doctor ordered? (3,3,4)
5. Break in prison term unacceptable (4,3)
6. Sweet but unsatisfactory compromise (5)
7. Woman's love? (4)
8. Small pants, we hear, get scornful laughs (8)
9. Joan Baez initially played this instrument (5)
10. Sprays of flowers (5)
11. Stars from Lima, Kentucky and Wyoming assembled (5,3)
12. Threesome run riot (4)

Down

1. Catch a lift (5)
2. Worker with wild animals from Rustbelt America (5)
3. House to back call from member of parliament (4)
4. Protests son and I can support at first (3-3)
5. Policemen in charge interrupting presentations (8)
6. Ultimately relapse during periods of dieting leads to lavish meals (6)
7. Naval commander became a London columnist? (6)
8. Poet starts to skip and quietly hop about (6)
9. Feeling unwell to some extent throughout (5)
10. Old swanherd occasionally possessed (5)
11. Opposed to Liberal Tina (4)
12. Reads about collecting dead snakes (6)
13. Beadle in Dickens book not originally modest (6)
14. They reproduce material for printing next to leaders in Independent, Sunday Times and Sun (8)