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CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Amend list, which is then corrected, and take to pieces (9)

8. Some very expensive kind of whisky (3)

9. Give hand signals? (11)

11. Having arrived to stage the show (7)

12. An advance, we hear, without friendly support (5)

13. Bird noises ruin the speech (6)

15. Establish the limits of French judicial punishment (6)

17. Mishandles earpieces (5)

18. Unfriendly crowd before the prophet returns (7)

20. Fresh confirmation about secure policy (11)

22. Begone! I must be seen inside (3)

23. A startling revelation for one who wakes up (3-6)

Down

2. Passion shown in their exasperation (3)

3. Nearly everything I have is charged with electricity (5)

4. Mocks at relative in backstreet (6)

5. Come from a wild manatee (7)

6. You'll find more point in giving forewarning (11)

7. One who gives in easily won't manage to do this (9)

10. Did the Greeks regard it as a capital investment? (5,2,4)

11. Kind of ice slippers for beasts of burden (9)

14. Extract from a book in which a fool is taken in by a young attendant (7)

Unsullied, but almost subject to punishment (6)

Expose this kind of cartoon (5) This hint would be about right to produce a remedy (3) 16.

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QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Loss of power of action (9)

8. Possess (3)

9. Cast down (11)

11. Kitchen sideboard (7)

12. Foreign (5)

13. Come back (6)

15. Ebb (6)

17. Rank (5)

18. Mean (7)

20. Bright (11)

22. In error (3)

23. Without stopping (9)

Down

2. Melody (3)

3. Water lily (5)

4. Flight of steps (6)

5. Recover (7)

6. Thoughtful (11)

7. Deceitful (9)

10. Contingency (11)

11. Guidance (9)

14. Favour (7)

16. Wan (6)

19. Banish (5)

21. Nothing (3)