Simon Shuker’s Code Cracker

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1. An open boat will have less displacement (7)

2. Deal struck that the publican will profit from (7)

3. A poet’s tears, he found, when in the drink (5)

4. Countrymen might almost lose key that’s misplaced (6)

5. Direction the wind takes off the sea (7)

6. Blackjack, perhaps (3)

7. Sort of beef about getting off to start the match (5)

13. The pile that was made by the industrious (7)

15. Subject payment that was given approvingly (7)

16. Introduce irrelevant matter to soldier turning up in costume (7)

17. This shows the body I refer to is mine (6)

18. If feeling poorly, had to take a back-seat (5)

20. A loss made by a rope with a running loop (5)

22. At present there’s nothing in the region of Cheshire (3)