CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Plane fair cart was directed to (8)

4. Feeble sound a sennight will make (4)

8. Pot top Piccadilly held back (3)

9. Divided a piece of garlic (5)

10. Take it so badly to be sick (3)

11. A sailor will put a jolly right... (7)

12. ... but to put a poet right about it is a figure of speech (5)

13. One against religion and authority gets Il Penseroso gratis (11) 17. Foremost line of a meteorological feature (5)

18. It’s a blessing nine sob about it (7)

20. If not at home, will not be considered (3)

21. Awaken one, or turn to advantageous purpose (5)

22. No longer being served with a handicap (3)

23. Clean away such a sum as is not inconsiderable (4)

24. Pensées should be put in this without one (8)

DOWN

1. An old love showing signs of great heat (6)

2. Direction-finder can go up and down (5)

3. Ground meal at start of lunch in teatime (5)

5. Typical example of Poe I met with (7)

6. He could murder left and right like this (6)

7. In pretence of it making state of being fitting (10)

9. Guesswork about end of Raj, once truce was formulated (10) 14. With nothing sorted out, went to rest for the night (7)

15. Exertion of body or mind in the attempt (6)

16. Expresses disapproval of the way one inhales glue (6)

18. A fleeting encounter with a bushy tail (5)

19. The laziness of an edentate (5)