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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Old age, trump played when it’s published abroad (11)

7. Blues I’m composing, of the highest nature (7)

9. Complete at such time as match should end (4)

11. Clothes horse rider turns to (5)

12. Silly dispute, endless wrangling (6)

14. Still it’s the outcome with the taking of pictures (11)

18. Army doctor in tree uprooted a long way away (6)

20. Evasion of important Venetian who held Doric leader (5)

22. Bird flying around with accommodat­ion bills (4)

23. Make us be our undoing in a way that will be abounding (7)

24. Batons? The staff of life doesn’t budge! (5-6)

DOWN

2. Refuse bib put out in a hurry (7)

3. Sediment being left, see an upturn (4)

4. Fit one out with energy and a clever remark (5)

5. Apart from this, ideas have to be formulated (5)

6. A sword for youngster to be around with (5)

8. Treat one right and one may prove annoying (8)

10. Stand a foot either side of street with ladder perhaps (8)

13. Get older silver examined first (3)

15. Fish supplement steeped in wine (7)

16. Cook it right inside? Slow down! (5)

17. So 12, it needs sorting out (5)

19. Tie up around top of tideway and use car (5)

21. Bother to get half the fuel on a steamer (4)

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