CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across

7. Contributing to charity made principal hot about hydrogen (13) 8. Naval craft dragged me in perhaps with a brushman (11) 12. Parrot will almost finish the flower-dust (6) 14. Weary way the listener is kept in a state of prohibition (6) 16. Look at the respect one has for a person (6) 18. Without the West, the whisper might die away (6) 19. Helplessly stumbling when lending four some change (11) 23. Infringement of Act inn not over-troubled by (13)

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1. Fancy what I’m after at leaving (4) 2. A quiche will not be enough for the side (4) 3. There’s complete agreement with student leader in their club (6) 4. There might be a dearth of cotton (6) 5. Confined space for company to work (4) 6. Storyteller who came from Australia recently (4) 9. In the gill ale may not be lawful (7) 10. A quibble that makes no one save up (7) 11. May be heartless : this is absent in the old old story (4) 12. Harbour left at sea (4) 13. How one used to plough a bit of corn (3) 15. Richard defending a small deer (3) 17. A disclaimer from Ireland right away (6) 18. Policeman Skinner? (6) 19. A third of the yard can be put into the boot (4) 20. It is taken by one swearing in a boathouse (4) 21. Coming from Greece I get to be a jot (4) 22. Warm feeling from log at start of Winter (4)

▶ Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Established 7. Play-off 9. Drum 11. Model 12. Collar 14. Fragmentary 18. Colony 20. Names 22. Rush 23. Averred 24. Grandfather

Down 2. Slander 3. Life 4. Enrol 5. Spume 6. Smart 8. Obliging 10. Continue 13. Mew 15. Remorse 16. Score 17. Aside 19. Loser 21. Half