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ACROSS

1 Old-fashioned

word for a pilot (7) 5 Scrutinise

carefully (4)

7 To free (3)

8 Tacit (8)

9 Big (5)

10 Metallic

element (4)

13 A hard waxy fat (4) 14 Mr Rosberg,

racing driver (4) 18 Small branch (4) 19 Sheriff’s group (5) 21 Higher in position or rank (8)

22 Strange (3)

23 Farmyard birds (4) 24 Voted in (7)

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1 Type of tillandsia (3,5) 2 Circuitous (8) 3 Hairpiece (6) 4 Change the dimensions of an image (6)

5 Faints (6)

6 Highest point (4)

11 Curtail (3,5)

12 Was present at (8) 15 Legal possessors (6) 16 Catch fire (6)

17 Scattered

or scanty (6)

20 Make well

again (4)