CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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7. Bits and pieces happen: a liar has a right to assemble them (13) 8. Official's misdeed, as female can testify to? (11)

12. How I sell one flowers (6) 14. Angelic person her Pa's turned out to be (6)

16. Is changeable as the Ram after 3rd November (6)

18. A jolly man one re-assembled (6) 19. Retaliation replaces one viewer with another (3,3,2,3)

23. Impartial way to dig up buried steed perhaps (13)

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1. Something soothing used in herbal medicine (4)

2. Brick structure eyed by one with divergent squint (4)

3. Bedlinen he has in groups (6) 4. Clots like the outsides of sandwiches (6) 5. The sea may bring gas home to one (4) 6. How sensible to be the fashion following the word (4)

9. Abnormal sensitivity might make it grey all round (7)

10. Alms make one cautious about it (7) 11. It dispenses the cards when gambling's afoot (4)

12. Give up 19 Down put out as it happens (4) 13. Before it can go up and down (3) 15. A time when hesitation reaches a conclusion (3)

17. Attempts crossing river in clothing (6) 18. Make me almost concur with having little flesh (6)

19. Depravity is upsetting to 12 Down (4) 20. Impressive scale shown in these pictures (4)

21. Unconstrained manner in which epsilon and eta are heard (4)

22. It is shown up in Revelations for an eternity (4)