Two-in-One Cryptic and Definition

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 The bird for a bit of fun? (4) 3 Furs felt strangely like specimens of fungus (8) 9 Before anything else - stir, stir fat! (2,5) 10 Approaches a backward artist in three ways (5) 11 Two nationalities cooperate to put a shine on things (6,6) 13 Where the staff may be thawing out? (6) 15 If you give me this bit of fruit you’ll put me off (3,3) 17 Vulnerable position held by a Greek mother (8,4) 20 I trail a weird moan to find her (5) 21 Village rhyme for a rural area worked over (7) 22 Design as redesigned and allocated (8) 23 Chaotic state dining room? (4)

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1 Game using rope tangled with tattered flag (8) 2 Plunder weapon (5) 4 Concerning the kind of work the stenographer may do again (6) 5 When you hear this the game is up (5,7) 6 Takes a lot on! (5,2) 7 Beginning of Sahara dust belt (4) 8 I encircle pig working out the maximum I will pay (5,7) 12 They give out letters, one by one (8) 14 Strong players wanted by agents (7) 16 ‘Dress show by a pathetic lot’, he announces (6) 18 Largely periods to obliterate (5) 19She makes money out east (4)

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

1 Neat (4) 3 Jam (8) 9 Speedy (7) 10 Banal (5) 11 Teacher (12) 13 Lottery (6) 15 Hesitate (6) 17 Impolite (12) 20Boredom (5) 21 Wordy (7) 22 Commonplace (8) 23 Pluck (4)

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1 Store-house (8) 2 Profundity (5) 4 Recommence (6) 5 Adequate (12) 6 Apparel (7) 7 Pitcher (4) 8 Memory (12) 12 Outlook (8) 14 Simulated (7) 16 Tremble (6) 18 Smell (5) 19 Nil (4)