The Northern Advocate

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

2. Threw bones as one did accurate knifework in the kitchen (5)

5. Boys doing work for their seniors carry Government warning (4)

7. Showing lack of starch, move with difficulty (4)

8. Sort of delivery the post office has taped (8)

9. Am I a setting for long comeback with my showy blooms? (8)

11. Despondenc­y one may have to back (4)

12. It gives one some reflection­s on pogonotomy (7,6)

15. Exam in which a novice driver gets gold at first (4)

17. Pressing in folds one wants, or getting those one doesn’t (8)

19. Constraint imposed by newspapers endlessly? Certainly! (8)

21. Young chap holding dead frame (4)

22. Fruit-case not enough to make the side (4)

23. Go in for unforeseen terror in part (5)

DOWN

1. Substitute for pumping iron one gets from a tin? (7)

2. The pickpocket will take a casual look at the books (3)

3. Being skeletal, yet in the pink (5)

4. Form of medical harangue (7)

5. Such as fox fleeing under rushy tops (3)

6. In the ingle a moggy may get less than a glow (5)

10. Sort of orange everyone has got (5)

11. Right in the middle of the crude dwellings it causes injury (5)

13. Night-flier will miscount the French version (7)

14. Admitted having pound we changed (5,2)

16. Turn forbidden in a limousine a novice driver takes in country (5)

18. Something in the sporting calendar, the flat on September 4th (5)

20. It’s wrong to commit one between poles (3)

21. Exclude a unit of atmospheri­c 19 (3)

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