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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Space to change here where wounds are treated (8-4) 8. Elegant and carefree as a bird one let loose (8) 9. Prejudice of one surrounded by graduates (4) 11. Verify accounts of fraud itemised internally (5) 12. Soundly prized when led around for an eternity (7) 13. Measure of liquor to make a recording of (4)

15. Pat and Ella joined in part of it (4)

19. Sort of pike the RAF sigh about (7)

20. Money may be in short supply for the intoxicate­d (5) 22. Admits to seeing topless dresses (4)

23. Overrule one, or beaver will turn to it (8) 24. Oversees distributi­on of purse one means to follow (12)

DOWN

2. Fanatical way to be afflicted with hydrophobi­a (5) 3. Legislativ­e body is seen at variance with it (6) 4. Example of frozen motion makes one join circle right away (6) 5. Little ‘O’ from a Greek could be moronic (7)

6. Is mad about speculativ­e enterprise − bad luck! (12)

7. It’s useful to save a toad gun was out to get (12) 10. Roman historian who lost his head to a clinging type (3) 14. It’s even a bargain as a vegetable (7)

16. Where racing drivers stop to take the stones out (3) 17. Have to appear among Poles without a beard (6)

18. If harvest is topped off with confusion one will get no food (6) 21. A wish for too much to be settled without a leader (5)

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