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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

2. Mouth-part I’d found in fatty tissue (5)

5. Have a breather with a quarter-pint (4)

7. Barge firm in the Southwest (4)

8. Useful implements for making us listen (8)

9. Sullen quality rude sons might adopt (8)

11. How quickly one will do without a meal (4)

12. External shape of coin rating u-turn (13)

15. Squander a colour that may be royal (4)

17. Govern it with a true leg-break (8)

19. One to make a puzzle of clip Rome can produce (8)

21. It’s so roguish, it may be over one’s head (4)

22. Man with a record for assistance (4)

23. Be a resident and prosper, having nothing to lose (5)

DOWN

1. It’s a little Roman, blow it! (7)

2 The long arm of the Mosaic code? (3)

3. Temporary wait while father gets the habit (5)

4. He helps an actor to hold crockery in the kitchen (7)

5. It may be methane that will make one droop over (3)

6. Still being upset, sings merrily (5)

10. Plunder it for Lee Enfield (5)

11. A fault that’s non-u and might bring about death (5)

13. Washed the throat with egg and lard preparatio­n (7)

14. It’s about seeing it come out of the Capitol (7)

16. Is not bound to be unsuccessf­ul, round being included (5)

18. A gluttonous feed of Cheddar, say (5)

20. Seed awarded to one leaving Sandhurst? (3)

21. Be poorly put up in parliament (3)

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