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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Tell police about a bar-tender who is a union official (4,7) 7. Again took up beginning of enormous amount when in the red (7) 9. How old aunt gets ever-decreasing starters (4) 11. A profit is made, and it’s not the first time (5) 12. Soft colour adhesive applied to wall finally (6) 14. Relays point of change, which is what one projects of self (11) 18. Was correctly marked if it went like clockwork (6) 20. Beethoven, in this symphony, showed the ordinal number (5) 22. Get near adjustment through one’s effort (4) 23. Letters: how long they take, and what one pays for them (7) 24. A bit tipsy, lets eyelid fall: it’s all in the game (11)

DOWN

2. Label in stockings shows who’s being held to ransom (7) 3. What turns up in some ditches is affected by the moon (4) 4. It may be one’s entitlemen­t to be correct (5) 5. Cure oneself of a habit that comes between lessons (5) 6. It is curiously uneven, and lumpy first and last (5) 8. Give attentive service to one in government (8) 10. Reviling the South for providing fence of iron (8) 13. An individual (single) person (3) 15. Can sail against the wind using this to pin it down (7) 16. Mount may be steered without hesitation (5) 17. Bottom part: what impudence! (5) 19. Company gets right American private a dog (5) 21. Agile snooper’s first to ask impertinen­t questions (4)

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