Derby Telegraph

Cyptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Taking more chances with some bacon? (6)

4. Stop on strange side street (6)

9. Short-lived success of electric cooking? (5,2,3,3)

10. Unhappy club used to press clothes (7)

11. Customary treatment of the American era (5)

12. Rang up on the 4th of July in a temper (5)

14. Say it’s a country (5)

18. Mark of wrongdoing? (5)

19. Item played in recital (7)

21. Untiring when debating a life, perhaps (13)

22. Corset made from a glider (6)

23. Be present when an abstainer reaches a conclusion (6)

DOWN

1. Don’t accept rubbish (6) 2. Means of payment for places in a queue? (8,5) 3. An anaestheti­c in there (5) 5. Car part likely to wear out? (7) 6. Be a critical MP? It can’t be done! (13) 7. Offer to be sensitive (6) 8. Silly version of Annie (5) 13. Fluster in a way that’s relaxing (7) 15. Performing in a temporary capacity (6) 16. Social gathering for political group (5) 17. Rely on English writer being taken in by theologian (6) 20. Miserly drunk (5)

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