Brighton Puzzles December 24

Across

• 1 In song, a number of birds calling an audible warning to golfers (4)
• 4 Unexpectedly, their net holds this many geese plus swans (8)
• 8 They offer counselling via publicity screens (8)
• 9 Put it with onion in your stuffing? Wise man! (4)
• 10 Gold rings? Four with iron plating (4)
• 11 Hotel left game birds for shepherds, perhaps (8)
• 12 How many pipers regularly feel anything but odd? (6)
• 14 A number of festive percussionists affected around 55 (6)
• 16 Seasonal TV highlight with no exceptions (8)
• 18 Band of elite soldiers attached to hospital (4)
• 19 Norway spruce possibly found in endless thoroughfare (4)
• 20 Dreadful vanity overshadows it in the Christmas story (8)
• 22 Get rid of black stone? No, it's fantastic! (8)
• 23 He famously fiddled with a bit of generosity (4)

Down

• 2 Gates possibly installed by senior police force (3,4)
• 3 Elevate beams for the audience (5)
• 4 Starts to twitter with owls and a number of turtle doves (3)
• 5 Pick out nasty lint in the blink of an eye (9)
• 6 Having a will to cut off country seat (7)
• 7 This many maids a-milking had dinner noisily (5)
• 11 They are sorry if teen's pint gets spilled (9)
• 13 Most self-obsessed natives getting relocated (7)
• 15 Shepherd or wise man possibly set off riots after six (7)
• 17 Ether knocked out French hens - how many? (5)
• 18 Number of swans a-swimming in Shrewsbury's river by the sound of it (5)
• 21 Lords a-leaping after reductions getting reversed (3)