Crossword

Across

1. Che burst out about unfinished composer (8)

6. Except for place to get a drink (3)

8. Stride into Beirut somehow to give things out differently (12)

9. Obscure Britpop band (4)

10. The most adjacent around the end of the Levant and thereabouts (4,4)

12. Cricketers follow on after big innings left out initially made by city in Mississippi (6)

13. Musical type of monkey? (6)

16. Plan Gino had to rearrange for anteater (8)

18. Capital in GPO's losses (4)

20. Ring villeins about cloud content (6,6)

22. A day on Mars in isolation (3)

23. They could be anything (8)

Down

2. Sung with no end of Bach's 35th (5) 

3. Be subjected to the first parts of Gotterdammerung after a French one and the German (7)

4. Alien sets about what is necessary (9)

5. Peak in the middle of story (3)

6. Good book found in Nairobi, blemished (5)

7. Tries again to redesign streets (7)

11. Info in creative work creative work in a country (9)

13. These (7) 

15. Noise or otherwise is wearing down (7)

17. Donated the last of meal to get hammer (5)

19. Slight loss of head made for illumination (5)

21. Oxford and Cambridge dispute? (3)