CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. Harmonic gong renewed cabana (8-4) 8. He tells of the rubbish an island put back (8)

9. How one will begin to move prison (4) 11. Men lose their head over a girl, and then what will happen? (5)

12. Fifty? Pity me – so upset with vacuity! (7)

13. In which to display such things as one got from bed? (4)

15. Nought re-entered in short weight reverse (4)

19. Half the room involved in din injurious to health (7)

20. A sound system forged by one duo after a start (5)

22. Eye part that's bowed in the sky (4) 23. For as long as it lasts around it, possibly (8)

24. They sing of darkness at home with things met office warns of (12)

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2. With initial hostility prepares to fight and does damage (5)

3. Reduced the distance between 'e and 'er, it might be (6)

4. Did something pressing, having washed (6)

5. Remote as the chance of not being indoors (7)

6. Carousel will make one slightly gleeful: take bypass! (5-2-5)

7. Bury airhole with one on, such being mediator's job (12)

10. He's out looking for secrets, probing youthful beginners (3)

14. Society is sickly, messing about in boats (7)

16. Tooth: perhaps it ate to turn something over in the mind (3)

17. A spangle is upsetting to five sibs around the East (6)

18. This republic a small country – and bent? (6)

21. I have to follow medical man to urge one along (5)