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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across

1. Record different prey: can show something wrong (11) 7. Knocking? Press the bell and make a very quiet entry (7)

9. It is pink and headless, and not written in the test (4)

11. Hold a piece of jewellery to one (5) 12. With iron in fact changing, it will have a bearing (6)

14. Article on ring with reason to be about religious study (11)

18. Uses razor to hold in craft (6)

20. Not moving, if one can get rent adjusted (5)

22. Aristotle might have written this letter at a stroke (4)

23. Oil the French spill in credit with him working at mine (7)

24. Marauder or company-leader put out vehicle in military use (8,3)

Down

Fruit I'm initiating, only to arraign one (7) 2. 3.

Being somewhat nervous, we add Guy but drop each other one (4)

4. For one of the bends vanadium must be included in nostrum (5)

5. A spell at the wheel may prove to be a hoax (5)

6. Sort of grey way to review it unsparingl­y (5)

8. One politician is not static, and gets better (8)

10. Going away with one, in California one is authoritat­ive (8)

13. Fight in the ring for what may be square all round (3)

15. Mother gets up with Heath in the country (7)

16. Being like half a pickle, only jelly (5) 17. Unsmiling thing one sees when the boat has passed one (5)

19. Soundly change the table at which priest officiates (5)

21. Little science, but a right to show where one was hurt (4)

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