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CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Be reticent – a sufferer from

sciatica will! (4,4) 5. Operated a tabulatingmachine – the facts are given inside (4)

9. Farthest from the winner,

but keep going (4)

10. Southern typographer gets

to the tape quickly (8) 11. Plan to encircle one

member of a squadron (5)

12. The money certain people

used to have for gifts (7)

13. As nation still is in turmoil, they are set up as sources of power (13)

18. To be suspended from above – that's the uncomfortable feeling a partygoer may get (8) 19. Possibly vast containers for

liquid (4)

20. One with no illusions about an

inclination (7)

21. What an adder may well

produce (5)

22. A certain amount of work to be

done for this master (4)

23. Two allowed the ornament to be

kept near at hand (8)

Down

2. It's delivered as a certain amount

of food with nothing over (7) 3. Tried to reorganise part of

Michigan (7)

4. It's initially used in the

Washington Post (7,6)

6. A strange notion for the

Merchant of Venice (7)

7. Checks what the police make (7) 8. Lock controller to get fish ready

for cooking (6)

13. What people who succeed do (7) 14. Some of the stockings and also

footwear (7)

15. Covering the smallest particles

turned to mica (6)

16. The opposite of how the poet

writes! (7)

17. Chemical container raised with

speed (7)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Lead astray (8)

5. Cry (4)

9. Biggest continent (4) 10. Compute (8)

11. Pass along

smoothly (5)

12. Authentic (7)

13. Supereminence (13) 18. Tedious (8)

19. Unctuous (4)

20. Lamp-case (7)

21. Hinge (5)

22. Fume (4)

23. Amaze (8)

Down

2. Narrow-minded (7)

3. Delight (7) 4. Differences (13) 6. High spirits (7)

7. Go before (7) 8. Held down (6)

13. In name only (7)

14. Settle (7)

15. Nun (6)

16. Feeling (7)

17. Insensitive (7)