2: Consents to accepting decline in rates of change (9)
3: Poorer and more squalid, heading from south to north (7)
4: Half of them should have had an idea (7)
5: Indolence evident in Rowes Lothario (5)
6: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)
9: Rocks lure a breeding fish (4,9)
13: Embedded work in the French part of Yemen (5)
14: Transfer from Delaware to California (5)
15: Trim waist in figure (9)
17: Joker idled lazily among ring leaders (7)
18: Trainees' ads make TV (7)
20: Pervert stripped in mineral water (5)
22: Sister leaves, seeing torment of supernatural servant (5)
23: Doctrine for some Kiwis makes sense (3)