7  Preserve sailor. (4)

 8  Secure female hostess. (8)

 9  Amin's collected an award for distinctive expressions. (6)

10 Drug used in Utopia tenuously. (6)

11 Fit to dispute? You've no right! (4)

12 Quartet heard - realised it was predictable. (8)

15 Exhaust the entire stock to good effect. (8)

17 Part exchange transported. (4)

18 Beautiful ladies - you can ring them we hear. (6)

21 Irritable uniform. (6)

22 After bottle is opened, there's a chance wine does this. (8)

23 Like a king? Not Roy - he's a friend. (4)

 2  Caress oarsman. (6)

 3  Ignorance not quite total - heavenly! (8)

 4  Ruin peacekeepers' party. (4)

 5  Maybe plan is to find open country. (6)

 6  Revise "Ebb Tide"? (4)

13 Cavalier boxer interrupts rambling story. (8)

14 Try and expel clumsily - quite the opposite. (8)

16 Seabird could be harmful, but not to start with. (6)

17 Show about some meat. (6)

19 Deserve merit. (4)

20 Oscar pursues sloth oddly in London. (4)