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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Is quick to get change paid right at the beginning (5) 4. Menial who ran about with vest (7)

8. About beginning of century is right as fighting stops (5)

9. Lie will be concerned with a hundred on the row (7) 10. Travelling-wrap may be put on the floor (3)

11. It may be amusing, its making people go roundabout way (9) 12. Sir Thomas was wanted by Oliver (4)

13. Hare’s last appearance axed after start of Spring (4) 18. Finish with expression in a half of the test (9)

20. Tee often encourages beginners to use front of club (3) 21. Item of baggage seemingly indicates none other is needed (7) 22. French woman given a place in Florida (5)

23. Resist changes made to the South by the Pleiades (7) 24. An anthem explicitly showing subject to be developed (5) DOWN 1. Give back lights for second engagement­s of same teams (6,7) 2. One diving gets control being depressed (7)

3. Doctor Sade was upset, which one is horrified by (6) 4. Struggle to burst the rivets (6)

5. In rigorous extremes work out cure that keeps happening (6) 6. A Liberal one claims one wasn’t there when it happened (5) 7. Conforming to the start of a distance event? (6,3,4)

14. It is included in a large box of salt (7)

15. Face six differing ages (6)

16. They are wrong to be served out of court (6)

17. A lady’s instructio­n to her hairdresse­r in document form (6) 19. Turns over and over, so car begins to move (5)

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