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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Sudden calamity turns to pathos, trace of which may be found (11)

8. Put up with bachelor who gets wrong idea about it (5)

9. How to get one to pray for fantastic hedge-shaping (7)

10. The money that earns interest is excellent (7)

11. Left a run to be made from the moon (5)

12. In particular, derivation of a food store (6)

14. Is deeply dirtied, having put me in the crossword pattern (6)

18. Be accommodat­ed at school, with the directors (5)

19. Make atonement to former spouse with a pet one took out (7)

21. Candle looks like going out in the blank spaces between pages (7)

23. Where contest is held it takes an age to show up (5)

24. Set recurred thus being restored to life (11)

DOWN

1. Risk putting first Leonardo in eastern part of church (7)

2. One on excursion may not be able to keep his feet (7)

3. An old soldier won’t remain dry (5)

4. The part of American pit-viper that will shake one (6)

5. Pulp – or a version of it that’s well liked (7)

6. Time when King Edward came to a conclusion (3)

7. It may be his market when he’s out for purchases (5)

13. Sort of gearing, with skew teeth, that never stops (7)

15. The poorest seat men can afford (7)

16. Had dire outcome for one difficult to persuade otherwise (3-4)

17. He may cut out what one wrote and turn it to one’s credit (6)

18. It isn’t true it will make bus go a different way (5)

20. Situation one finds if one leaves the fish (5)

22. Set the dogs onto a sailor (3)

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