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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Didn’t pedal for nothing when we’d heel to turn (4-7)

8. Make one proud at early start, but get behind schedule (5)

9. One will do well to step into another’s shoes (7)

10. Knock pin down with kilt set in a whirl (7)

11. It shows one was originally attached to a sort of orange (5)

12. They bore holes for us, gear being changed (6)

14. Jazz enthusiast has game of cards in short time off (3-3)

18. A coat may be one of many colours (5)

19. Chest to play with if it has broken ball in it (7)

21. Owner is upset when he comes in unplaced (7)

23. Corn one found in the middle of a labyrinth (5)

24. Where one got change and was worse off for such expenses (3-2-6)

DOWN

1. Getting it for nothing is a different sort of flower (7)

2. Time to be a chorister if wiping it out (7)

3. Grain produced in thaw around the East (5)

4. Festival, each half of which disturbs one’s repose (6)

5. Girl got in with Claud, somehow (7)

6. Change colour and go red, yet conceal it (3)

7. A paragon is a smaller version of the real thing (5)

13. Leave the field to rodent going round tree maybe (7)

15. Club for a writer to beat (7)

16. Money received for type man upset (7)

17. As it’s reflexive, it flies around having time to enter (6)

18. Gasping, one runs for one’s trousers in America (5)

20. Dance barred in the region of the lost (5)

22. What person starts wishing harvest over? (3)

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