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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Duration of unit can once be changed (11)

7. Forecast how grapes will turn out by end of June (7)

9. Strip one of a nourishing fluid (4)

11. Constantly smoking mountains? (5)

12. Make a film that’s straight to the point (6)

14. Be fair: get my help with the AA, perhaps (4,3,4)

18. Accurately describe it if need is made for it (6)

20. Cheerful songs ill-adapted to a backstreet (5)

22. Wound one with a triangular piece let in (4)

23. Whirled around the gate, dry as may be (7)

24. On earth be wrong in setback and hearing will follow (11)

DOWN

2. Protective garment leaves nothing uncovered (7)

3. Lack of the means of living in one edifice (4)

4. Middle-America torn apart by serious wrongdoing (5)

5. Something tasty for about a hundred different pies (5)

6. Fish that may move on rollers (5)

8. On gin: any variation can be vexatious (8)

10. It’s strange there isn’t more than one (8)

13. Short on payment, is shrinking from notice (3)

15. Civilian force has a limit one can sort out (7)

16. Saying a girl will get no end of it (5)

17. Apart from a head, dies out (5)

19. Strike a false note at the smithy (5)

21. Seven to be gone through as one gets older (4)

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