Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES 14762 ACROSS

1 Preside over the meeting with a hundred locks

4 An inseparable pair become sad over a multiple birth

7 Entail scantiest mid-week replacements

9 Norm is on an equal footing

1 0 Not now – in a while

1 2 Bump into sound flesh

1 3 A practice composition from an eastern duet arrangement

1 5 Real mixed-up old king

1 7 Saying time and time again

1 9 Prevaricate about a golf ball position

2 1 An intruder – one who breaks the barrier

22 Bust short motor sounds

23 Is worthy of saner alterations

DOWN

1 The torch is not too heavy for a special supper

2 Last in bed at the racecourse

3 Avail oneself of roster changes

4 Retort with a play on words

5 Familiar with the conflict in Adelaide outskirts

6 Lolly centres – they’re darlings

8 Domesticated a model when made up

11 It’s awesome with ease to rise early inside out

1 4 Mutilate the barrier on time

1 6 Transform real terrible insides

1 8 Shrink from hate

20 A sympathetic response to the lady friend of Narcissus

STRAIGHT CLUES ACROSS

1 A seat

4 Four offspring at once (abb)

7 Demand

9 Standard

1 0 By and by

1 2 Encounter

1 3 Musical exercise piece

1 5 Shakespearean king

1 7 Proverb

1 9 Fib

2 1 Uninvited guest

22 Human trunk

23 Merits

DOWN

1 Dusk

2 WA racecourse

3 Holiday place

4 Witty saying

5 Cognisant

6 Lovers

8 Subdued

11 Uncanny

1 4 Harm

1 6 Change

1 8 Loathe

20 Tasmanian lake

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