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ACROSS

1. Fate (4)

3. Surprised (8)

9. Crevice (7)

10. Manacle (5) 11. Disastrous (12) 13. Whole (6)

15. Mark of disgrace (6) 17. Devastating (12) 20. Passenger ship (5) 21. Writers (7)

22. Honours (8)

23. Funeral mound (4)

DOWN

1. Deserted (8)

2. Beginning (5)

4. Hypothesis (6) 5. Summarise (12) 6. Inclination (7)

7. Ordure (4)

8. Children’s verse (7,5) 12. Generosity (8)

14. Inns (7)

16. Frustrate (6) 18. Creamy-white colour (5) 19. Distant (4)