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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Fire and unload (9) 8 A ring in the nose for a halter (5) 9 Refuse to hold pose stupidity! (7) 10 The pair show hesitation that’s the trouble (6) 11 He sounds like a wheelerdealer (6) 12 4 and 15 made whole (8) 15 Musical figure (8) 18 Cleans up when diet is knocked into shape (6) 20 It’s said two of them don’t make one right (6) 21 He doesn’t believe articles it’s fashionable to read (7) 22 Demand payment out of turn (5) 23 One has one of them; another three (9)

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2 A girl some admire needless to say (5) 3 Sort of cats the French keep (6) 4 Changing tale over a phone call (8) 5 A call for repeated effort (6) 6 A tender for the dairy farm (7) 7 Cruel but if treated correctly she alters (9) 11 It’s not all he has (4-5) 13 What the driver needs above all is to be sober (8) 14 In Cuba maybe a number love to camp out (7) 16 Things look different after dark (6) 17 Such a word usually is (6) 19 Follow in downtrodden suede shoes (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Fall guy (9) 8 See eye to eye (5) 9 Vocation (7) 10 Long thin piece cut off (6) 11 To bully (6) 12 Creating needless fear (8) 15 Paying no attention (8) 18 Quantity manufactured (6) 20 Slow to understand (6) 21 Fugitive (7) 22 Simultaneous firing of guns (5) 23 Discovery found to be illusory (5,4)

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2 A transient fad (5) 3 Courteous (6) 4 To produce (8) 5 Adapt to special purpose (6) 6 Be victorious (7) 7 Find by assiduous searching (6,3) 11 Position of fancied superiority (4,5) 13 Unlimited (8) 14 Woven fabric (7) 16 Supple (6) 17 Tendency in one’s character (6) 19 Russian mountain range (5)

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