The Chronicle

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Game to set kilts swirling? (8) 5. Shape of a seat (4) 9. Anyone in it is out (4) 10. What the bride says afterwards won’t be in church! (8) 11. Wild geese? It’s just a yarn! (5) 12. Weak, and liable to get the wind-up? (3,4) 13. Hit-or-miss affair indicating a wrongful conviction? (5,3,5) 18. Mollified five hundred with sausage mash! (8) 19. A smack on the wrist (4) 20. He has main control (7) 21. Their families are their pride (5) 22. Ride past (4) 23. Beached and abandoned (8)

DOWN

2. The sort of critic who strikes? (7) 3. Female Russian artisan, perhaps (7) 4. An ordeal for the patient? (9,4) 6. Excel or finish with such sports (7) 7. He may live for weeks on water (7) 8. Not a cutting look! (6) 13. Unusual terrain for a coach (7) 14. Having poor taste (7) 15. The length an associatio­n will go to (6) 16. Disturbanc­e in court, perhaps (7) 17. Misdemeano­ur of a receiver (7)

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