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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Take tube, stir air and these will flow into larger stream (11)

7. Lack twenty-four sheets headed by the Sappers (7)

9. Quietly pull boat to front of vessel (4)

11. Wild shot at those invited failing to include table-top (5)

12. Sell things but soundly work like a cyclist (6)

14. It slams gate perhaps on such as are found in caves (11)

18. Street entertaine­r puts coach on kerb endlessly (6)

20. Drive one to make a pile, including a thousand (5)

22. State follows duck but is before fifty where there’s cricket (4)

23. Very large people found in semi-confusion (7)

24. Broke in when cold season didn’t begin to put red out (11)

DOWN

2. Polite invitation to be concerned with a search (7)

3. He replaced one in the tin at that time (4)

4. Went off course right amidst stampeding deer (5)

5. Blusters about being first with clothing of poverty (5)

6. In set surroundin­gs we can provide last course (5)

8. Last month Denis was perhaps about to have been rude (8)

10. Maybe lied about one being in spirit of light-headedness (8)

13. To get older, men would begin household set-up (3)

15. Former writers go east − but at what cost! (7)

16. One over brothers rating both being curtailed (5)

17. Apply leeches to the French when in bed (5)

19. Bad mark may be got out of satin (5)

21. It may hold up the wall or stick out at the seaside (4)

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