The Northern Advocate

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Have a good cry about the right to fight (5)

4. One at cross purposes etc, with role confused (7)

8. Ascribe to a non-drinker the right one with wrong tube (9)

9. A hand-out at the very end (3)

10. I’d returned to street to rub around, not let it settle (7)

12. Just that it’s a stretch of inland water (4)

14. They report one’s taxable income as one hits back (7)

17. Shout ‘Ahoy!’: it’s hardly a comedown! (4)

18. Supply boiler perhaps to be included among the salmon (7)

20. Habit makes you and me reach end of the line (3)

21. One among the great guns is decreed by authority (9)

23. The French getting taxed somehow feel elated (7)

24. Build it up in some rectangula­r form (5)

DOWN

1. A put-up place one is getting on a ship to accommodat­e one (8-5)

2. Where spectators are watching internatio­nal match: witness (6)

3. Not working, the Orient is being enticed around (8)

4. What doesn’t fly, even making upward starts (3)

5. The day before festival of Nativity starts is flat (4)

6. One to find things in the rubbish may appear staggering (6)

7. How might Len present him with a fill-up? (13)

11. Lady initially in the nude will somehow carry it off (5)

13. Break the law when at home and on edge (8)

15. Place of entertainm­ent approximat­ely holding mine when upset (6)

16. He has made an offer that hasn’t been refused (6)

19. A spell, but there’s nothing in that (4)

22. Swindled one in high degree (3)

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