GENERAL CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Bury (5) 4. Take it that (6) 7. Aged (3) 8. Self-possession (6) 9. Of the veins (6) 10. Puts together (8) 12. Cereal crop (4) 13. Inked strip (6) 15. Off, bad (butter etc) (6) 16. Autumn (4) 17. Pack down tightly (8) 19. Unmarried (6) 20. Thought a great deal of (6) 22. Employment (3) 23. Swiss bankers; garden figures (6) 24. Use brush (5)

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1. Off-the-cuff composition (13) 2. In addition (3) 3. Redbreast (5) 4. Counsellor (7) 5. A NZ tramp (9) 6. Rocky bighorn (8,5) 11. It gets chewed and blown (6-3) 14. Heart of cell (7) 18. Shifts (5) 21. Be situated (3)