Hawke's Bay Today

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

2. Florentine family abandoned one to a physician (5)

5. It’s an oppressive burden for a pair of oxen (4)

7. A sea-duck from the South will cry like a gull (4)

8. He can’t remember cinema, as it turns out (8) 9. Destructio­n of cake grew from it (8)

11. She would, in short, lose her apostrophe in the outhouse (4) 12. It was a skin specialist who last groomed it like this (13) 15. Ink mark, and how to dry it (4)

17. Can count on true name being put to it (8)

19. Project above it and make her van go wrong (8)

21. Be at the top of advertisem­ent he put first (4)

22. It will seem to go on forever in transvesti­te clothing (4) 23. Appearance on stage of young hounds to begin training (5)

DOWN

1. Compunctio­n Rome’s perhaps shown re the surroundin­gs (7)

2. Cut the grass making a wry face (3)

3. Armada suffered a loss of theatrical­ity (5)

4. In state, at one time, one could hide (7)

5. A positive answer began 24 hours ago (3)

6. Jack and king at the middle of the wheel (5)

10. Body in space seen by me in bed (5)

11. 20 take us up to sweeten it (5)

13. No agent can work out what shipping weighs (7)

14. Place one to use it at variance (7)

16. He’s having an affair but, having left, it’s finished (5)

18. Could possibly show great strength (5)

20. A bit of horseplay in the newspaper (3)

21. Many a harvester turns up carrying food for the horses (3)

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