1: Mobster at heart, presently I'll be carrying expensive pistol on hip (7)
3: Save the forests regarding a series (7)
6: Identified slugger around noon (7)
9: In contact with a Georgia institution (7)
11: Times leader knocks adornments (9)
12: Guard enthralled by desperately urgent sad song (5)
13: Some wealthy women, I'm told, gossip about curves (9)
14: Compete with life in France (3)
15: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)
16: One giving evidence, if ignored, would be more snappish (9)
18: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)
19: Chewed a fat aide's foul-smelling gum (9)
20: Facing in both directions, like Janus? (7)
21: I hear idle, I see peaceful and happy (7)
22: We err by demolishing an alcohol producer (7)
23: Sexually suggestive, and complicated, we hear (7)