CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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A stand-in placed in dye of a different sort (6)

Give me back the ointment to preserve a body (6)

Place one with it in a suet pudding (7)

He makes one a present of four in a German half (5) Grizzled about Gerry right away (4)

Lunar sea-horse? (4)

Falsehood may be sustainable in law (3)

He may offer one tickets for everything French (4)

Fail to meet up with a schoolmistress (4)

Old bird would complain non-stop (3)

An air one will adjust engine’s performance to (4) An account of some old battle-axe (4)

Sound is apparent in one version (5)

It’s kept to remind one of people in tome written about them

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26. Legislative body seen at odds with it (6)

27. It includes four Sundays in the Veda and New Testament maybe (6)

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Disputes miners staged with participation of the East (13) Case for a doctor to be long-suffering (7)

It’s a fault in mining that may catch one out (4)

Get cam in for its possible pulling power (8)

Smith uses it to forge nail with vanadium in it (5)

Truth to appear in future rumour till we’d disperse it (6,4,3) In 24 hours the Spanish can create a hold-up (5)

Its ratio is not quite wrong (8)

Branch of study in scenic development around the East (7) The model in the garden may bank in Zurich (5)

Of birds one put in vehicle after a start (5) Surrounded by military leader in assistance (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Macaroon 7. Gripe 8. Realist 9. Sunbeam 10. Oats

12. Torrent 14. Onerous 17. Like 18. Torment 21. Thimble

22. About 23. Vehement

1. Marrow 2. Chastise 3. Ruin 4. Outset 5. Hike 6. Pelmet

7. General 11. Protest 13. Enviable 14. Outlay 15. Settee

16. Decent 19. Root 20. Wire

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