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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. An account in words of company is printed out (11)

8. Dance in a dotty sort of way (5)

9. Can be seen to vie with Libs’ confusion (7)

10. Cheese list put out by the fashionabl­e world (7)

11. Some menial at Chatsworth used to hold the door (5)

12. Trout swimming round top of burn meets another fish (6)

14. Decisive moment when credit is doubled (6)

18. Be the reason for a legal action (5)

19. Turn it right off the end of a gun (7)

21. It will make one very scared to ferry it about (7)

23. One can track it going from line to hook (5)

24. Getting prepared for marking, a dye is put out (6,5)

DOWN

1. This is put down for dope it’s replaced (7)

2. A private, oblong piece of bread or toast (7)

3. Laughing about one in bombast (5)

4. Old dance depicted by Virginia in glass (6)

5. It makes one prejudiced, living with water all round one (7)

6. What was the point of the gallows? (3)

7. Tree one is told one will find at the seaside (5)

13. Old boy likes to construct a pillar of stone (7)

15. Fruit − and a nut − Sal prepared (7)

16. Stage flats show part of the act on the railway (7)

17. Carbon, or any sort of drawing-stick (6)

18. Get one out to get a cold (5)

20. With five Tories, is missing one to make his cross (5)

22. Drink is responsibl­e for half the gossip (3)

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