Rotorua Daily Post

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Shriek about meeting obstacle first as they look for lifts (5-6)

8. Coming from a dance, whacked (5)

9. Felix initially drank – as Felix would – and panicked (7)

10. Hangs around showing sex appeal in a variety of roles (7)

11. In any circumstan­ces turn may give one a lot of pain (5)

12. Wren had no alternativ­e but to achieve fame (6)

14. Part of a coat will almost go back in the car (6)

18. Turn like soldiers helmsman may have a trick at (5)

19. Two pints to go round half a team of four (7)

21. William Tell, he wrote, got T E Lawrence in one (7)

23. Lad that is confused by a standard of perfection (5)

24. Without relief it timed a gun to go off (11)

DOWN

1. He interrupts one in check, Lerna-bound (7)

2. Stretched condition of net given up is no different (7)

3. Layoff bets along the border where the plants are (5)

4. Swarm all over it, put out with the Fens (6)

5. Arise from the name one gave up as one dined (7)

6. In unfinished watering-place one has a small drink (3)

7. He will help golfer to hold his tee, one is told (5)

13. King who was just a fictional boy (7)

15. Beseech one to enter by mistake at the end (7)

16. Became a colonist and paid the bill for it (7)

17. One of five children in the street has a cockeyed look (6)

18. Things to be sold are apparent in two ways (5)

20. Victory in silver for flying (1-4)

22. No end of consommé but the French didn't value it much (3)

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