3  Suits ringfencing Tyneside's profits (8)

 8  Dubious plastic confetti scattered around church (9)

10 Years are rolled back (3)

11 Dicky eluding humour (7)

12 Redhead meets alien that is secure again (5)

13 You can virtually read them from cover to cover (6)

15 Lower back carries a bedsore in part (6)

17 Auntie oddly takes on particle (5)

18 Joints worked free by Queen and head of state (7)

20 Biblical character's fate (3)

21 Milky drink without golden and extremely terrific biscuit (9)

22 Drew attention to risen puddings (8)

23 Fish feels topless (4)

 1  Not so much boxing in dreary musical (13)

 2  One point in the lead (5)

 4  Man had following, and so on, cut (6)

 5  Stretching green mantle is out of order (11)

 6  I earn it in exchange for laziness (7)

 7  Lack of form strangely pleases heartless oustiders joining head (13)

 9  Listen, I seek blasted independent transportation (11)

14 One who forgets hiding in vomit terror (7)

16 One who tweets primarily on Republican issues or libertarian economics (6)

19 Obliterate the home counties after a time (5)