CRypTIC AND QUICKIE CROssWORD

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ACROSS 4. the scope of the Bard? (7) 8. Village associated with Shakespeare (6) 9. Forced to seek a new occupation (7) 10. Share out in rota, perhaps (6) 11. Close, so ran back to a disturbance (6) 12. Cleaning down? (8) 18. hen or beetle (8) 20. the way people eat (6) 21. A steed in not very frisky form (6) 22. enormous disaster struck it (7) 23. Creatures that increase - but don’t multiply? (6) 24. he hates somehow to put a dagger away (7) DOWN 1. Possibly pray when under the treatment (7) 2. Possibly time to take 500 left out (7) 3. A drug almost does for the leading lady (6) 5. even now (8) 6. A sound combination of notes in harmony (6) 7. Quake in the centre, more or less (6) 13. the affluence they enjoy is apparently unmerited (4,4) 14. Faces half a dozen men of wisdom (7) 15. Modern poetry is hostile (7) 16. Smooth tongue? (6) 17. equip a girl with ships (6) 19. Surrenders profits (6)

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