August 2022 Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 Fractured nation queries survey (13)
• 7 Firm gets involved in working mine for financial gain (6)
• 8 The least well inhabitants of overspill states (6)
• 9 Muezzin call reveals something elemental (4)
• 11 Ham actor's developed eye disease (8)
• 14 Dark room in Aruba or Mecca is redesigned (6,7)
• 17 Someone who catalogues first signs of invasive anaerobic bacteria (8)
• 20 Trial of Blairite fringe tackled the first two (4)
• 21 Knocking back beer, Edward is happy (6)
• 22 Leaders of all republics admonishing Russia meet at Turkish summit (6)
• 23 Come in, Coco, so I may unravel a sort of policy (13)

Down

• 1 Question unusual clan sizes, showing particular curiosity (13)
• 2 Unemotional but showing interest in raised beds (5)
• 3 Plainer tiara's flatness (7)
• 4 Currency of Iran, possibly, and originally Armenia (5)
• 5 God is everything, and primarily hallowed above all else (5)
• 6 Exceptionally good with a type of acid - it's out of this world! (13)
• 10 Labels Parmesan to be without equal and complex (5)
• 12 Firm, small-headed lettuce (3)
• 13 Subtract mass from fluid volume to identify this botanical part (5)
• 15 Very early to be eating cereal! (3)
• 16 Congratulations on adopting modern swagger (7)
• 18 Central African's disapproving exclamation is knocked back (5)
• 19 Fridge without a top shelf (5)
• 20 Stand by a negative party (5)