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ACROSS

7 Hogs’ ire combined is monstrous (7) 9 Strong dislike of piano off stage (5) 10 Bird cage (3) 11 Poker chip laid out by Kent worker (3-6) 12 Unfair lending causes American rage, but not loud (5) 14 Venom enables comeback of sea creature (7) 16 Given dodgy OBE, hard dragon Ms Meaden (7) 18 Prevent a doctor grabbing rook (5) 19 One’s very stupid to obstruct senior teacher (9) 20 Strewth – nearly half the poultry’s vanished! (3) 21 Seeps, it’s said, like these vegetables? (5) 22 Poet with one leg is taken inside (7)

DOWN

1 Add to chemical mixture (8) 2 From Barry, one odd uncle of Stacey (4) 3 Head off significant number (6) 4 Well-mannered European swallows it (6) 5 Backstage reporter on The Voice UK cooking Kiev chop (4,4) 6 Potentate from Jerusalem, irate (4) 8 Olympics competitor home to spill the palette (11)

13 Continuous working on bunker (8) 15 Begs to rent out food (8) 17 Louche king, one in outbreak (6)

18 Gail’s TV mum puts gold on squirrel’s nest (6) 19 Prominent bishop, advanced in years (4) 20 Film technician’s travelling bag (4)