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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Parade, even though parade has been cancelled (4,3)
5 A non-runner whose form is fixed (5) 8 Caution about something you may come across in a card game (7,6)
9 Build straight up (5)
10 The converse of friends (7)
11 Loathe being tested, perhaps (6)
12 He picks the winning ticket, but returns the prize (6)
15 Path one straightens out for a carriage (7) 17 Beastly places to live (5)
19 It may have a striking effect at a seance (6-7) 20 Not an irreversible belief (5)
21 Some hundred Germans at work in the harbour (7)
DOWN
1 What most men have to do in a quiet way (5)
2 An instrumentalist has a part in this arrangement, not a chorister (13)
3 A poet is affected by drugs (7)
4 He comes across as a false friend (6)
5 A swell operator doesn’t get on (5)
6 She serves a hopeful spinster, perhaps (4-2-7) 7 She puts on other people’s clothes (7) 11 Precipitate down-payment (7)
13 Again become invalid or become invalid (7) 14 A woman riding the second half first (6) 16 Commonly speaking, it isn’t an unpleasant stigma (5)
18 It makes things less sharp (5)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Be in control of (7) 5 Example (5) 8 Edification (13)
9 Type of willow (5) 10 Strictly self-disciplined (7) 11 German POW camp (6) 12 Communicate (6) 15 Good-natured (7)
17 Loud sound (5) 19 Parsimony (5-8) 20 Sovereign (5)
21 Item of kitchen furniture (7)
DOWN
1 Set of beliefs (5) 2 Operating in many countries (13) 3 North African country (7) 4 Abhor (6)
5 Heavy African knife (5) 6 Possible results (13)
7 No longer existing (7)
11 Run playfully (7) 13 Handcuff (7)
14 In support of (6) 16 Purchaser (5)
18 English composer (5)