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ACROSS

1. Waistband (4)

3. Destroying (8)

9. Wearing away (7)

10. Speak (5)

11. Agonising (12)

14. Pompous fool (3)

16. Belonging to them (5)

17. Perceive (3)

18. Stop making progress (5,2,1,4) 21. Proportion (5)

22. Customers (7)

23. Unity (8)

24. Daze (4)

DOWN

1. Painfully thin (8)

2. Unaffected by emotion (5) 4. Scrap of cloth (3)

5. Opposites (12)

6. Means (7)

7. Bloodshed (4)

8. At the same time (12) 12. Incompetent (5)

13. Throw away (8)

15. Abrasion (7)

19. Terminate (5)

20. Aquatic predator (abbr) (4) 22. In favour (3)