The Scotsman

DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

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CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Speech repeated ambiguousl­y? (6-4) 7. The privilege of being correct? (5) 8. Longed for deanery to be rebuilt (7) 10. Links with teeth, presumably (5-3) 11. Makes excavation­s for somewhere to live (4) 13. It can, of course, be irritating to the gardener (6) 15. Child's horse, we hear, in wind, turns out to be geese! (6) 17. Make a request after tiptop job (4) 18. Uneasy because the others don't get so much? (8) 21. As we all might be a defence against water (3-4) 22. Reams written to defame (5) 23. Resolved to put off when dug up (10) Down

1. Closely follow mother in doctrine (5) 2. Lent a gun to sort out the problems (8) 3. Non-profession­al singer? (6) 4. Snare part put up (4) 5. Coming down to earth from the top of the stairs? (7) 6. Girl draws attention to musical embellishm­ents (5,5) 9. Any spiders destroyed where medicines are made up (10) 12. Train sap to be unreasonin­g adherent (8) 14. Sole act drawn up in proportion (2,5) 16. Blamed for producing madhouse (6) 19. Set me up at the finish to make correction­s (5) 20. Dull, having become submissive? (4)

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