1: Do I have the capacity to be good-natured? (7)
3: Don't take time out (5)
4: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)
5: Child, bask by the sound (3)
6: A child toils to produce poems (7)
8: Dine out and stop being vague (13)
9: Tavern drink for the auditor, one with access to confidential information (7)
12: Most distressing point about dead saint (7)
13: Distended, having bolted a stew (7)
15: Very young cat I lost in an ancient city (7)
16: They say he trembles before the eastern lords. (7)
19: Overseer required because of handle turning (7)
20: African leader reversed stance on fabled writer (5)
23: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)