Hawke's Bay Today

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Profession­al place is a major premise (11)

7. Severe reprimands for spacecraft (7)

9. Broadcast as it happens to be a wicked return (4)

11. Hasn't enough stature to be a drink of spirits (5)

12. Right at the end of the smithy there's a counterfei­ter (6)

14. Linens and laces sorted with habitual purity (11)

18. Water in a hollow to stir and knead (6)

20. Let Los Angeles return in shallow relief (5)

22. Encourage contestant with a carrot, say (4)

23. Take it on hire again and let it go (7)

24. Sort of army creating terror with one tail-twister (11)

DOWN

2. Petroleum found by crook perhaps going to the Italian (4-3)

3. A window frame that gets worn at the shoulder (4)

4. Go up when about to beat the others that are due (5)

5. Bumptious way British Rail has adapted to it (5)

6. Van Dyke was an artist who turned up in part of the garden (5)

8. It learns of a different sort of guts (8)

10. The Duchy has trouble afoot: the West has everything (8)

13. The aged glory of the Stars and Stripes (3)

15. The king's favourite fruit is dried (7)

16. Flash of light seen by pilot first in Channel Island (5)

17. Charming and delightful and very small to be in the street (5)

19. Some cattle were at the wheel (5)

21. Firmness of character may be spread over the road (4)

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