July Puzzles and Solutions 2021

Across

• 1 Labour volunteers got stuck outside (4)
• 3 Before one hundred debts got costly (8)
• 9 Freedom fighter's extraordinarily solemn and lean (6,7)
• 10 Stealing from leading UK news source (5)
• 11 Sentamu artfully brought up concealed anguish (6)
• 13 Learnt about hiring (6)
• 14 Emperor is imprisoned by cunning rake (6)
• 17 Weight anxiety (6)
• 19 Disappeared after crop top split (5)
• 21 Ohio and Nevada, say, work for love of good leadership (13)
• 22 They dismiss French I grasped in another sector (8)
• 23 Ingredient of nut-free processed nuggets? (4)

Down

• 1 Colour can make truce problematic (8)
• 2 Used in photography, otherwise it's irrelevant (6,7)
• 4 Far off meteor (6)
• 5 Dance with Italian girl and beginners (5)
• 6 Subduing Roger's Vietnam nightmare (13)
• 7 Vermin retreating, followed by three wise men? (4)
• 8 Guerrilla criminal with revolutionary flair (6)
• 12 Worries about king's close relations (8)
• 15 “Pronounce one hundred…” “100?” “…in French!”(6)
• 16 Compound is linked to the fall of Rome (6)
• 18 Seventy fringe members quit meeting (5)
• 20 Man, perhaps, is siding with the French (4)