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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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Across 1. The art of making snap decisions, perhaps (11)

7. With which to work at muscles, as in a variety of games (7)

9. Move very gradually and nip the top off (4)

11. Some support for the street, also the rest (5)

12. It shows how one encountere­d a brickcarri­er (6)

14. Rail descent made in a fashion near the hub of things (11)

18. Having met no trouble, it's right for him to guide one's thinking (6)

20. Some weight returned to church to mark it on the tally (5)

22. Steak so cooked is not often come across (4)

23. The final sure arrangemen­t one puts up with (7)

24. Some err being put out with fewer being without relaxation (11)

Down

2. Has Gallery shown the shape of a spear? (7)

3. Great joy to be had among single entrants (4)

4. Just a feeling it was borne by Quasimodo (5)

5. Divert American entry in the same without a start (5)

6. Out of the sun, but crooked? (5)

8. Part hearing (8)

10. Planned to put one's name to it, indeed (8)

13. Except for a piece of soap to shut one out? (3)

15. They used to be wrong in law so one is a usurer (7)

16. Feel as if one's burning, but looking dapper (5)

17. In which men are moved and have taking ways (5)

19. The beak has taken in the right Scandinavi­an (5)

21. ‘And murmuring of innumerabl­e ___’ (Tennyson) (4)

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