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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Provide what’s necessary to complete the musichall programme (4,3,4)

9. From the bush I picked the fruit (3)

10. Reckon it could be a cute call (9)

11. Turns back to get the bargains (5)

13. Alternativ­e negative emerging from therein (7)

14. Produced a high-ball? (6)

16. Passage every swallow uses! (6)

18. The cheat is more alert (7)

19. Encourage a shout of approval (5)

20. Smash into a tree – you need to find your bearings (9)

21. When this gets through, it’s transparen­t (3)

22. I can state he will get put out by this (11)

DOWN

2. One politician who’s likely to cause trouble (3)

3. They provide security and capital cover (5)

4. Putting the shot successful­ly (6)

5. Like an animal it goes back in the undergrowt­h (7)

6. Leo and Thomas have become decidedly repugnant (9)

7. This low step needs adjusting for wayside station (7-4)

8. Occult sign for minutemen (11)

12. Changes into final precarious economic state (9)

15. Cost expressed in old money, we hear (7)

17. Although sounding an honest worker, he’s out of form (6)

19. Island requiring a bit of secret exploratio­n (5)

21. Almost jump over the rope and move quickly down the slope (3)

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