CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. Sales area suitable to hold end of line that doesn't ring true (11)

8. A flier that might annoy, for example, not bright returning (5)

9. Hats for the punters perhaps (7)

10. The most remote pretext remembered as containing it (7)

11. Discover the whereabouts of a vestige (5)

12. The Spanish can leave the descant, none being older (6)

14. Mountain dew might be sort of mist that's hardly there (6)

18. View by way of getting around the street (5)

19. Traveller has sort-out and gets the story back (7)

21. Totter, first and last, with more than enough to walk over (7)

23. Work to be sung by turncoats? (5)

24. Not much time to put another costume on? Cheat to do so! (5-6)

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1. Arrive holding one favoured and take part (7)

2. At university arranged to go out and gave the latest (7)

3. Beginning of term, where we are where they are (5)

4. Teased for taking wife to bed (6)

5. Bouncy castle I redesigned (7)

6. Even the result may get knotted (3)

7. Make no use of a stew that's been reassembled (5)

13. Bogus bear of Milne's endlessly applied to locks (7)

15. What pigeon toe does: hands one over to the police! (5,2)

16. One held who loses head when on the boards (7)

17. Very keen to find a private retreat in painting (6)

18. It's very necessary Virginia accepts it before fifty (5)

20. Not a one on? No comparison: perhaps it hasn't been mended (5)

22. Half to adopt a grey animal with long ears (3)