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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

2. Get up a tract, by the sound of it (5)

5. Follow instructio­ns: that’s nothing, to a Turkish governor! (4)

7. Don’t put in for honour? It follows! (4)

8. It is superfluou­s to double the end of the sewing implements (8)

9. Can do her wrong, having got a hold on bed! (8)

11. It is not suffering, being a supplier of oil (4)

12. In two minds about chic little number: her zip’s broken! (13)

15. Four from the pack that can’t be returned to the server (4)

17. Causing offence can be electrifyi­ng (8)

19. How cruel to laud absence of ode, being concerned with arts (8)

21. It may entice one to be at the wicket and hold one (4)

22. Thunderous sound of hands getting together? (4)

23. Sambucus has lived a longer time (5)

DOWN

1. Other-worldly devil in charge (7)

2. Not the joint one would welcome in one’s income (3)

3. More near the centre, this man is satisfied with a good meal (5)

4. The scope for being able to study in the bath after a loss (7)

5. A bird that might give voice to ‘is displeasur­e (3)

6. Some support for a painter, as when surrounded by fish (5)

10. Gladly notes the arrival of one painter Frans took in (5)

11. Cause devastatio­n of a part of the new reckoning (5)

13. Watch the late schoolfell­ow start the rally (7)

14. Picture a name that might prove popular with drinkers (3-4)

16. It is savage to be caught with the wrong lure (5)

18. Should move freely, if so intoxicate­d! (5)

20. The top Scottish bug attached to a telephone wire (3)

21. A piece of soap across which liquor may be served (3)

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