CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

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Mercury mixture needs to be given a Ted to be merged (7) Youngsters in the stable might get fired (5)

It’s a crime to mis-rate a child (7)

Kean was diverted on the day there was nothing on (5) Next, Eric sat: he lost leaders who could set him free (9) Understand the Holy one to be the papal court (3)

Sort of medicine one doesn’t continue with? (5) What’s trodden on gets by at sportsfield (3)

One left African country with Edward, no longer a slave (9) Woman without husband taken in by child will pass out (5) It sounds like turkey that one eats so greedily (7)

One with roots in Scandinavia? (5)

You and I, in tense form, may dulcify (7)

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Worker with a half-cough is heard in church ... (6)

... where vicar turning up in wrong date got turned aside (7) Endless cut found in American tank (3)

Sat up before such madness could be discovered in Australia

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5. Edward would own up to doing it to gold (9)

6. Is pleased by falsehoods about Kelvin (5)

7. Last of motors ticked over and crept laterally (6)

11. Lack of industry may result in nice olden form (9)

14. Tar consumed much after May 1st (7)

15. Financial set-ups one has confidence in (6)

16. Better than even an unpaired child (4,2)

18. Having taken ring out of rut, the trees are seen (5)

20. Go up in the coach, but it’s not the real thing (5)

23. An extra ball, yorker, eliminates openers (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Parks 4. Resists 8. Cover 9. Torture 10. Urn

11. Ground-hog 12. Ewer 13. Arch 18. Restrains 20. Dam

21. Mortise 22. Amuse 23. Suspect 24. Lutes

1. Picture frames 2. Revenge 3. Sprigs 4. Ration 5. Spring

6. South 7. Sledgehammers 14. Redoubt 15. Praise 16. Silent

17. Assail 19. Sores

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