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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

2. Half the lips, in being put back, come into flower (5)

5. Don’t go straight ahead, but serve at table (4)

7. Not being illuminate­d, it’s heartless for one thing (4)

8. Not being children, they expand – having spun round (5-3)

9. A base is, in France, discovered in foot control (8)

11. Quiet period needing to get a by to get baby off (4)

12. At home make mind up, at being held, to have no fixed value (13)

15. On opponents’ ground Law, say, heads off (4)

17. Inoffensiv­e old country worker holding lamb’s head (8)

19. A few words, maybe, will declare what one’s punishment is (8)

21. Pass a man on deck (4)

22. A girl’s brother first found in the kitchen garden (4)

23. One’s submission for competitio­n has beheaded man on guard (5)

DOWN

1. Some anxiety felt for business set-up (7)

2. Either way up it may be a dram (3)

3. What smoker needs is of little seriousnes­s (5)

4. Non-u blue in concert may give one something to think about (7)

5. One in two ways will be successful (3)

6. To find a penny in a crooked mile may incite one to action (5)

10. For all time, beginning of year is to the exclusion of none (5)

11. In zoos, gnu-lovers turn up while they allow one to breathe (5)

13. The outlay for former spouse writer only half observed (7)

14. Those with leases have an entry in the wigwams (7)

16. At what place are we to embrace a woman? (5)

18. In preference choose to pick the head off (5)

20. A receptacle, on the other hand, is turned up (3)

21. Fodder has endlessly been given to youngsters first (3)

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