Progress with Mrs Konieczny's crossword

Across

  1.  River with endless building block makes fine fabric.  (7)

  5.  The orient in one who entertains leads to Walthamstow thoroughfare. (3, 2)

  8.  An affectionate peck twist forms a ringlet. (1, 4, 4)

  9.  French one does not begin a song. (3)

10. Good day within a bushel load. (5)

12. Burial place in charge of the cross word! (7)

13. Scots in Verona form discussions. (13)
15. Teach a foreign coin inside two points. (7)
17. Follow evenly tennis cure. (5)
19. Sharply pull stomach back. (3)
20. Non starting assent with queen in Christmas entertainment creates artificial language. (9)

22. Flowers of war? (5)

23. Lee term forms a large garden plant. (3, 4)

Down

  1. Teach bus. (5)
  2. Embroil evenly a scan (1,1,1)
  3. Meatball function contains one ship.  (7)
  4. Somehow crutches help Elizabeth to the highest point in the village. (6, 7)
  5. Sacred grasps a learner evergreen. (5)
  6. Quoin eats in order to calculate formulae. (9)
  7. 3-card flushes with Church of England in layers. (7)
11.  Sung algae creates tongues. (9)
13. Organic compound reacting with water follows church at Roman town. (7)
14. Odd after godly hypothesis. (7)
16. Declares status revamp in reverse. (5)
18. Bring forth the endlessly annulled. (5)

So far, so good. I still need to work out the words that fit the gaps in the grid.  It could also be tweaked with better words to describe Mrs Konieczny, as in some places the words chosen just fit the grid, rather than associate with her.  But quite a good start.