CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. Proved it to be set up in business (11) 7. Set one against another tie decider (4-3) 9. It's a revolving cylinder – can you beat it? (4)

11. Shape a copy of something on a small scale (5)

12. Call, or otherwise effect an arrest (6) 14. In broken pieces of fan my garter got destroyed (11)

18. Settlement only made by company in the lead (6)

20. How one calls those who are involved in Lloyd's business (5)

22. A great demand for a plant that will grow in water (4)

23. Declared the dear Rev was upset about it (7)

24. He has aval connection to a long-case clock (11)

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2. False report from Corsican, say, who lost his head (7)

3. It may be a sentence in a biography (4) 4. Put name down for Nero perhaps (Latin) (5)

5. Make me sup on the froth (5)

6. Feel the pain of being well turned-out (5)

8. Doing one a good turn by boiling last egg (8)

10. Go on with making tunic one ordered (8)

13. A gull may sound like a kitten (3)

15. One's compunction concerning the walrus (7)

16. Get runs at the rate of five to a hundred (5) 17. Apart from a remark made sotto voce (5) 19. He doesn't win the pound and is sore about it (5) 21. Fifty percent for Henry and Alfred (4)