Burton Mail

Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Examine those under medical treatment – they may affect future judgments (4-5)

8. Verily, it’s the equivalent of nine months! (3)

9. One may confidentl­y gamble on them as undoubted restrictio­ns (11)

11. One who resorts to a smack for a sail (7)

12. A matter for regret about the end of true devoutness (5)

13. Destroy the record of Rugby Union fight (3,3)

15. One who remains although he keeps going! (6)

17. I will interrupt one’s unseemly row (5)

18. Cattle food in Switzerlan­d (7)

20. Inexperien­ced retainer who works on the golfcourse (5-6)

22. Be indebted for a letter, by the sound of it (3)

23. Make light of fine store being destroyed (3,2,4)

DOWN

2. As a pupil you must follow a certain direction (3)

3. An eccentric kind of shaft (5)

4. Dispatched with the railway guard (6)

5. Fastens up a favourite piece of news (7)

6. A coach outing to see a whodunit? (7,4)

7. Unfettered by imaginatio­n? (5-4)

10. Spanners used by motorists (4,7)

11. Certainly not a weak chest! (9)

14. Instructio­n to economise answering no purpose (7)

16. Physical training holds the way to produce a heavenly body! (6)

19. Tribal group round the East free of guilt (5)

21. Stray from the proper route (3)

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