Cryptic crossword No 2,810

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• 2 downTool for a pound (6)
• 3 downHere is (for Macron) the most chilling (6)
• 4 downBoring person who really gets inside your head (9)
• 5 downSee 18d
• 6 down’Less British, more English’ in troubled Roy Webb feature (7)
• 7 downPossibly superb passerine Beryl Reid cooked, losing some energy (8)
• 8 downFormerly healthy duke had a blow-out (7)
• 9 downPlane taking good number out of French city? (5)
• 15 downAround lunchtime, working to support last of the French noble scholars’ calling (9)
• 16 downI’ll defend Catherine after commercial voice-over (8)
• 17 downSee 21d
• 18, 5 down5¢ fee to acquire popular actor (7,5)
• 19 downWhere to enter answer, ‘Pitt’? (6)
• 20 downUnimportant person beat other game-players on the way up (6)
• 21, 17 downActor selling drugs all round Crete, sadly (5,7)
• 23 downSome said it told the same thing (5)