Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

4. Notice the clothes worn for a speech (7)

8. Join up in the fashion of 20 (6)

9. Almost hoping for a painkiller (7)

10. Diminish the sound of class (6)

11. Merely concealing physical education, frankly (6)

12. Played first at cards and made a noise (8)

18. You can get fortified wine for nothing in such a place (8)

20. Noiseless variety of 8 (6)

21. Said to be involved in Hockney’s Tate display (6)

22. Give room to build a road (4,3)

23. Former prime minister in slow transformation (6)

24. Abandon in favour of rice wine (7)

DOWN

1. Cries used to get the fire going? (7)

2. Cleat is made from springy material (7)

3. Agree because made to go (6)

5. Free a man returning to the masons (8)

6. Invader finding jockey without one (6)

7. Drops the tapers (6)

13. Footballer not travelling with the team? (4,4)

14. One hundred being tried in competition (7)

15. Scholar involving returning boy in dangerous feat (7)

16. Sign about a shrew (6)

17. A niche for a holiday (6)

19. Involve English translation of Latin (6)

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