Times Quick Cryptic 906 by Alconiere

A lot of clever clues here which have been a pleasure to blog. I seemed to be taking quite a time completing the grid but the two long ones and the programming language went straight in and I took a fraction over 10 minutes in the end. COD to 2dn.

ACROSS

1. Sways - persuades. Deviou(S), means (WAYS).
4. Buzzard - bird. Sound of a bee (BUZZ), by a (A), road (RD).
8. Fortran - programming language. I knew of this back in the days of pencils, coding sheets and punched cards - I had no idea it was still going. Something secure (FORT), managed (RAN).
9. Plonk - double definition.
10. Ballpoint pen - writer. Dance (BALL), stage (at some POINT in proceedings), enclosure (PEN).
12. Doomed - condemned. Like a cathedral roof perhaps (DOMED) with nothing (O) inside.
13. Turnip - vegetable. Rotation (TURN), I (P)lanted.
16. Slipped discs - medical conditions. Furtively handed (SLIPPED), records (DISCS).
18. Order - double definition. If you refer to something of a particular order, you mean something of a particular kind. To order/request a drink.
20. Gerbera - plant. Loi. Mana(GER BERA)ted.
21. Flyover - motorway bridge. Insect (FLY), some cricket (OVER=a minimum of 6 bowls).
22. Dodge. Double definition.

DOWN

1. Sofa bed - item of furniture. Anagram (unusual) of DOES FAB.
2. April Fool's Day is the first day of April (so when March is out/over) when people get duped.
3. Scrap heap - tip. After row (SCRAP), he (HE) needs a (A), quiet (P).
4. Bandit - outlaw. Not allowed we hear (BAND), it (IT).
5. Zip - double definition.
6. Above one's head - impossible to comprehend. Anagram (replaced) of A BEE NOAH'S DOVE.
7. Duke - noble. Of in French (DUE) to accept our county (UK).
11. Thundered - loudly threatened. Displayed in wi(TH UNDERED)ucated.
14. Postage - a charge for sending. After (POST), a time (AGE).
15. Beggar - mendicant. To carry (BEAR) about a couple of gallons (GG).
17. Woof - animal noise. Court (WOO), fine (F).
19. Rev - double definition. Vicar=reverend, turn=revolution.