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QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Irritation (4) 3. Scrawl (8) 9. Imagine (7) 10. Thin silk fabric (5) 11. Parsimony (6-6) 13. Stagger back (6) 15. Picture-house (6) 17. Unavailing (12) 20. Edible bulb (5) 21. Feeling (7) 22. Urgent (8)

23. At one time (4)

Down

1. Unsafe (8)

2. Coppice (5)

4. Eerie (6)

5. Pause (7)

6. Poise (7)

7. A paradise (4)

8. Components (12)

12. Mode of speech (8)

14. Entrust (7)

16. Shelter (6)

18. Sham (5)

19. Ceremony (4)