CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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7. Figures mistake could be due to Carroll – er – Eric! (8,5)

8. Two ways in to bookkeeping (6,5) 12. Is about type of jacket, a point less (6) 14. One who adds it's time for hot weather (6) 16. Women who spell lose their head when it is irritating (6)

18. It makes one see red as green, awkwardly abandoned by the East (6) 19. With nothing to pay it's simple, too, to be so informal (4,3,4)

23. Never stopping to reveal change, one by one: about time! (13)

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1. Dressed a youngster with cambric top to begin with (4)

2. Craft in Malaya got back up and took Academician aboard (4)

3. Shrews catch a chill in the vessel (6) 4. Modifies what ‘orses may be led by (6) 5. Ornamental network may be corrosive (4) 6. Political inclination may attempt to conceal nothing (4)

9. One with public duty has a place to work right at the end (7)

10. Very little clothing from personal holding? (7)

11. In such, a child is young enough to be carried (4)

12. About one score in playing cricket: it's disastrous! (4)

13. Sort of spirit necessary to every Englishman (3)

15. One will soundly be deserving of such a receptacle (3)

17. He puts to his first part to second part a vessel (6)

18. Verifies accounts of first-class stud, perhaps (6)

19. Number four in iron? One more! (4) 20. Country one in this place is unbegun (4)

21. Girl who might actually have turned up in the Bank of India (4)

22. Yellow: yellow initially all right, about end of April (4)