DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Discussing your work in Parliament? (7,4)

9. Take out a former pamphlet (7)

10. Near a rebuilt stadium (5)

11. Boredom caused by some drunken nuisances (5)

12. Favour otters swimming to a point (7)

13. On one hand there's a myth about beat (6)

15. Mistake over students (4,2)

18. Retires from making vessels in metal (5,2)

20. Cots I rebuild, indifferent to pain and pleasure (5) 22. Or something charged for stars (5)

23. Write something deep? (7)

24. Prudish about cattle raids (6-5)

Down

2. Like the weight of an area of Birmingham (5)

3. Like Jack? (7)

4. Essential character of a man on the river (6)

5. Remains in corsets (5)

6. A stage dance? (3-4)

7. Not a considerate profane act (11)

8. Earned a lot of money and built a boat (4,1,6)

14. Say you're given a smacker by one with a white rose (7)

16. Gas Alan uses to cook a pasta dish (7)

17. Creature from a fashionable group (6)

19. A girl's returning a plant (5)

21. Possibly are to speak (5)

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