Times Quick Cryptic No 2089 by Mara

We have a pleasant steady middle-of-the-road Quick Crossword form Mara today. It was only the SE corner that hald me up a little taking me just over the 6 minute mark. I liked 4D, 6D and 16D in particular.Thank-you Mara. How did you all get on?

Fortnightly Weekend Quick Cryptic. This time it is Sawbill's turn to provide the extra weekend entertainment. You can find the latest crossword  here. Enjoy! If anyone is interested in our previous offerings you can find an index to them all here.

Definitions underlined in bold italics, (Abc)* indicating anagram of Abc, deletions and [] other indicators.

Across
1	Spicy beef finished, sheep ending in cannelloni (8)
	PASTRAMI - PAST (finished) RAM (sheep) [ending in] cannellonI.
5	Flower I get out of bed shortly (4)
	IRIS - I RISe (get out of bed) without the final letter, [shortly].
8	Type of bread mine, thank you (5)
	PITTA - PIT (mine) TA (thank-you).
9	Artist accurately portraying subject is later trashed (7)
	REALIST - (is later)* [trashed].
11	Man treating me has poison (4,7)
	HOMO SAPIENS - [treating] (me has poison)*.
13	Perfect language (6)
	POLISH - Double definition, but not with the same pronunciation.
14	By the sound of it, weapon flew high (6)
	SOARED - Sounds like, [by the sound of it], SWORD (weapon).
17	Ancient cipher, sort I cracked (11)
	PREHISTORIC - (cipher sort I)* [cracked].
20	Challenging Turkish official isn't unusual (7)
	AGAINST - AGA (Turkish official) (isn't)* [unusual].
21	A duck fed very hard metal block (5)
	ANVIL - A NIL (duck), outside, [fed],  V (very).
22	Caught by eye, timorous beast from the East (4)
	YETI - Hidden in, [caught by] eYE TImorous.
23	See other strange device for footwear (4,4)
	SHOE TREE - (See other)* [strange].

Down
1	Tube, first bit of pasta in dish (4)
	PIPE - First letter, [first bit] of Pasta [in] PIE (dish).
2	Bag hidden in flowers at Chelsea (7)
	SATCHEL - [Hidden in] flowerS AT CHELsea.
3	Second entry in assignment following study (11)
	READMISSION - READ (study) MISSION (assignment).
4	Sec wine, dark (6)
	MOROSE - MO (sec; second; moment) ROSE (wine). Nice surface. No the answer is not a sec, (i.e. dry), wine!
6	European river rising high in north Estonia, primarily (5)
	RHINE - First letters, [primarily] of Rising High In North Estonia. Nice one. But, sadly, the surface is not geographically correct. As described here,  Lake Toma in the Swiss canton of Graubünden is generally regarded as the source of the Rhine
7	Shelved beach contains tidewater, initially (3,5)
	SET ASIDE - SEASIDE (beach) [contains] Tidewater [initially].
10	Proper pocket (11)
	APPROPRIATE - Double definition.
12	English drunk in happy moment of revelation (8)
	EPIPHANY - E (English), (in happy)* [drunk].
15	Get back on top (7)
	RECOVER - RE (on) COVER (top).
16	Uncomfortable pain: one might be running? (6)
	STITCH - Double definition, second a cryptic hint (a running stitch)... and a nice surface.
18	True love's last kiss, pretence (5)
	EXACT - lovE ['s last], X kiss, ACT (pretence).
19	Escape group of ships, briefly (4)
	FLEE - FLEEt (group of ships) without the last letter, [briefly].