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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Get one out in a round for three voices (5) 4. Syntax has little weight with half the market (7) 8. Food may turn, but it takes people in (9) 9. Is endlessly declared to be a monkey (3)

10. Told how one had familial connection­s (7)

12. A term for a small beer (4)

14. Lay it on one and make one suffer (7) 17. Number of sheets are laid out on mountainto­p (4) 18. Being learned, has to die true to form (7)

20. Sort of drawing it’s certain Kipling used (3) 21. The way one writes who one is (9) 23. Spelling OK all-rite is a mistake in print (7) 24. Turn out, always on time (5)

DOWN

1. Arousing dispute over con’s trial being rigged (13) 2. Story about non-drinker may be just idle talk (6) 3. Giving one a lift when entertaini­ng one inside (8)

4. Get a horse to move on with a whiz, say (3) 5. Singer engaged in several Tosca performanc­es (4) 6. Service book shows girl I’m giving up (6) 7. Strengthen­ing tonic men refer to (13)

11. Dig deep and find some stranded elvers (5) 13. Account a man of the cloth gives is precise (8)

15. A lot of money to be made in a block of coded data (6) 16. Work out one’s vital statistics (6)

19. It may be so friendly to one on drugs (4)

22. Pin-up will begin to take shape (3)

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