Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

5 Curtail par in another way to be fastidious

7 The cradle is a small firm model

8 Attempts to throw the rider of male deer

1 0 Not out to become obsessed

1 2 Military pageant individual marks the skin

1 4 Populates and makes punctuation marks perchance

20 Put together a degree and keep in front

21 Not striking every day

22 Domesticated the apple of one’s eye

23 Differing national heartless people make ice-cream

DOWN

1 Reading matter on territory

2 Original misplaced rifts

3 Antique coward is lion hearted

4 Unusual cat in charge of prickly pears

5 Prominent, cultivated starter’s pistol club

6 I hear it’s a trick by short bounders?

9 Sound insulation from silky down

11 Turn on a sound unit for an inventor

1 3 To set in operation – let there be light (4,2)

1 5 Next to nothing, chaps sign

1 6 Alter alert – not now

1 7 Sea levels nearly detailed afterthoughts

1 8 Form letters of incantation

1 9 Witty characters stay liberal

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS 5 Specific

7 Crib

8 Dollars (coll)

1 0 Enthusiastic

about

1 2 Skin artist

1 4 Settles

20 Build

2 1 Obvious

22 Favourite

23 Coloured icecream

DOWN

1 Stretch of land

2 Best place

3 Collector’s item

4 Spiny plants

5 Not private

6 Marsupials (abb)

9 Pillow stuffing

11 Annual prizes

1 3 Start (4,2)

1 5 Portent

1 6 Afterwards

1 7 Tides

1 8 Rest

1 9 Brackish

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