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ACROSS

1 Taxi cost (4)

3 Sell (6) 9 Exonerate (7) 10 Beneath (5) 11 Shack (3)

12 Had claret (anag.) (9) 13 Punctual (6) 14 Tree-dwarfing art (6) 16 Plated mammal (9) 19 Epoch (3) 21 Welsh dog (5) 22 Official pardon (7) 23 Abdicate (6) 24 Cupid (4)

DOWN

1 Showy (5)

2 Rice dish (7) 4 Perfumed water (3,2,7) 5 Viper (5)

6 Rhine siren (7) 7 Blood sausage (5,7) 8 SE county (4) 13 Xmas reindeer (7) 15 Faerie Queene poet (7) 17 Conventions (5) 18 Mad king (4) 20 Deep chasm (5)