7  Sprayed hose to calm things down (6)

 8  After end of enslavement serf gets everything (3,3)

 9  Part of Israeli deal is maybe something unrealistic (8)

10 List of tasks creates a lot of fuss (2-2)

11 Has returned to area central to Iraq that's a huge desert (6)

13 French author moving south to head for Brussels? (6)

14 Small child's drink (3)

15 Sophisticated old city bar close to failure (6)

17 White man out on bail (6)

19 Coming from the East End yob sadly holds a restraining order (4)

20 Merry old king's regulation salad dish (8)

22 Ignoring cold, mountaineer is able to move freely (6)

23 Source of old equipment at home (6)

 2  Some boycott a war-torn capital (6)

 3  Think meat diet is wrong (8)

 4  A bit of news? About time! (4)

 5  New sort of apple is crisper (6)

 6  Act of kindness of excellent performer (4,4)

12 Anagram clues require our solver to identify characters initially - as does this one! (8)

13 Something charged following accommodation in stable for horse (8)

16 After a short time leading embryology graduate creates a tiny life-form (6)

18 Cry over a home revolution in part of the Balkans (6)

20 One vehicle over time becomes another (4)

21 X is a sort of this (4)