The Chronicle

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. The seat holds 50 who quail (6)

4. Knock the girl in this direction (6)

9. Don’t be secretive at home: entertain everybody! (4,4,5)

10. No artificial note (7)

11. Busy worker begins small church in wood (5)

12. One offers next to no time in it (5)

14. Look hard at such rates (5)

18. Love affair of the first persons in the morning (5)

19. Evict the actors for a pariah (7)

21. Tearing mine to bits in military discipline (13)

22. He pays rent for article in temporary home (6)

23. Presumably actors go through them as well as on them (6)

DOWN

1. Monarch has degree in cooking (6)

2. Originator of shocking notes? (8,5)

3. Noted performers, together (5)

5. Live according to custom (7)

6. Demolition of a residence is a crime (5-8)

7. Repeat the sound about when I leave. Cheerio! (2-4)

8. They make rings round them (5)

13. Stoker who tries to undo his own work? (7)

15. Vegetable causes vehicle to decay (6)

16. Committed to spring (5)

17. Paradoxica­lly they may have seats in them (6)

20. Pamphlet about an area of land? (5)

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