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Cryptic No 1582 (answers in next week’s paper)

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ACROSS

1. As used in game to make insect dance? (7,4) 9. Freeze up in Algeciras (3) 10. Home without parents (9) 11. Three sorts of anaestheti­c (5) 13. Couldn’t be earlier to toss out l inside (7) 14. Please slip by (6) 16. Cut out 100, the majority being extreme (6) 18. Give set out to trace (7) 19. Cuneiform shape on the Western border (5) 20. Keenly contested athletic event in which 100 also ran (5,4) 21. Place most of 3 go round (3) 22. When the animals get their teeth into things (7,4)

DOWN

2. It was grown in Merry England (3)

3. Some echo irresponsi­ble singers (5)

4. Unmask former attitude (6) 5. Confirm that a wild animal has escaped (4,3) 6. Holes out, in the lead, but held on payment (9) 7. Hot gospeller’s contributi­on to the public good? (4,7)

8. How to be in the highest of spirits? (3,2,3,3) 12. A grave addition by the sound of the chief’s voice (9)

15. Send round a gratuity by way of salary (7) 17. Recover, for example, in wet weather (6) 19. Twist trews out of shape (5) 21. Queer spirit (3)

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