Daily crossword

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CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Once attire for father in the street (4)

8 In poor health, like an ill-equipped typesetter (3,2,5)

9 A certain bearing required for conveyance (8)

10 Passive stage of insect raised in Pennsylvania (4) 12 An accommodating place to somehow teach about 50 (6)

14 Bound to be a growing time (6)

15 The first of the postmen with unusually clear package (6)

17 Slavonic refinement (6) 18 Put up with a sort of baiting (4)

19 Disorderly rise in volume is irritating (8)

21 Military action intended, we hear, to get part of the fortress (10) 22 Adversely affects theatrical successes (4)

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2 To express things differently could appear rash! (10)

3 Travel in the direction of Chaldean city (4) 4 Allowing little breadth for a struggling artist! (6) 5 Expresses willingness to remove the top from the money boxes (6)

6 and 11DnCould it be demotion of a N.C.O.? Certainly stripes are involved! (8,10)

7 Much land is brought up in two articles (4)

11 See 6 Down

13 Ale crate to tear apart (8) 16 Young animals will produce a state of untidiness (6)

17 He's used to carrying strong drink (6)

18 The bachelor beside the infant (4)

20 These things could reveal a biblical character (4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Occupy

completely (4)

8 Emphasise (10)

9 Scheme (8)

10 Cast (4)

12 Diminish (6)

14 Nonsense (6)

15 Way (6)

17 Indigence (6)

18 Equipment (4)

19 Sycophant (8)

21 Light (10)

22 Pit (4)

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2 Excessive (10)

3 Final (4)

4 Deed (6)

5 Really (6)

6 Interrogate (8)

7 Loan (4)

11 Curse (10)

13 Resonant (8)

16 Mend (6)

17 Gate (6)

18 Sinister (4)

20 Stalk (4) Quick Crossword answers

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