JACOB's CRYPTIC 7-2020

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Across
  1. 5. Hunting great nautical beast, we hear, making a terribly loud sound
  2. 7. Constructing a construct
  3. 9. A general condition of things, we say
  4. 11. A gemstone results from the disjunction of playfully fighting, a chronic winter disease
  5. 12. To promote the result of pulling something out of a caramel rater and putting a moon between it
  6. 13. Ripple not tardy to envelop Down Under
  7. 15. Lute tax on the books?
  8. 16. Principle goes both ways
  9. 17. Endowment for an old US general
  10. 19. Unlit secession leads to a lack of moral restraint?
  11. 21. Destroyed a treaded ice with one less Explosive
  12. 22. A bird puts together a big dance party above Norway
  13. 23. A sign of happiness is roughly one and a half kilometers past the capital of Syria
Down
  1. 1. No tidal icon breaks or depends on anything else
  2. 2. A country-- to express scorn ahead of some temperate sky fall
  3. 3. It is commanded. Appreciate your less-fair wellspring
  4. 4. What makes something go and break the pollen trap?
  5. 6. An order to represent time before sound thinking
  6. 8. Rotating part? Rotating part of the Midlands!
  7. 10. No reference to making a reference something one says
  8. 14. Opposition to one before the chorus
  9. 18. That man's third, revamped coin is too emotional
  10. 19. A top among mail identification
  11. 20. Impossible to get married, we hear, for a fruit