Hawke's Bay Today

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Tackle Pinky incorrectl­y, and one may score from it (7,4)

7. Fifty per cent depart: sound mad to corrupt them! (7)

9. Son of Adam who produced a sound measure (4)

11. Trifles with one as one does at keyboard, perhaps (5)

12. How often Nissen set part of it within (6)

14. It’s meant to be in canvas shelter with one sort of loan (11)

18. He’s not bright and takes plum pudding with hesitation (6)

20. Be at home with broken leg, at the fireside (5)

22. It is shapely and round to a little girl (4)

23. Top of flight, or perhaps end of flight (7)

24. Megaton? One may be seen in the ring (11)

DOWN

2. Say how clear it is following contents of text (7)

3. Tramp at length returned part to busker theatre queue held (4)

4. Taxi is fashionabl­e when there’s room for it at sea (5)

5. Take on a party, being likely to surround it (5)

6. A suffusion of colour in cards of the same suit (5)

8. ‘But the father ____ never a word, A frozen corpse was he’ (Wreck of the Hesperus) (8)

10. Ardour for one of several prayers, perhaps (8)

13. There’s no alternativ­e in tale of pig’s accommodat­ion (3)

15. A gun perhaps led to his breakdown in torment (7)

16. I’d found one or more initially, in a manner of speaking (5)

17. Sudden increase, one is told, in worsted fabric (5)

19. Body or, where painting is concerned, what holds it in (5)

21. So tardy, the match may give rise to violent outburst (4)

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