g g 1.  2.  3.  4.  5.   g
6. g   g   g   g   g   g g
7.      g 8.      9.
  g   g   g   g   g   g  
10.         g 11.    
  g g g   g   g 12. g   g  
13.  14.     g 15.      
  g   g   g 16. g   g g g  
17.     g 18.     19.   
  g   g 20. g   g   g   g  
21.        g 22.     
g g   g   g   g   g   g  
g 23.           g g

ACROSS

1. May go with split arrangement? (10)

7. The core of our band's material has been built up a lot (5)

8. Top publisher phoned editor and had a blue in the car (7)

10. Mark correct - finished idle (4,4)

11. see 6-Down

13. I am in there, confused, with one or the other (6)

15. Female side follows intial odds with intelligence (6)

17. I hear church may provide one (4)

18. Murray River town with backing of law, Greek character and nursery bed (8)

21. European change in returning Gilbeys Gin or Karloff Vodka (7)

22. Carry on after rages - core issue (5)

23. Fleeces for wild flower (10)

DOWN

1. Bar chip of some hair (5)

2. Solitary type about to put on an Englishman (8)

3. Animal in a group: the ears are showing every second (6)

4. What a good home always provides (4)

5. Omen, or one of the Italian gentlemen (7)

6,11-Across. Fleeced in the yard? (3,3,4, 4)

9. Elude great mauling when set free (10)

12. Get extravagent, even as merger fully past back (8)

14. Admonish very loudly after twitch knockout (4,3)

16. Drunken sot serves incomplete twit (6)

19. Without drunken sot, who's tale will describe this beast? (5)

20. Laid back on the phone (4)