The People's Friend Special

Try our cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

7 Scandinavi­an city’s uniform maybe appals (7)

9 Banish former partner to French island (5)

10 Front of a shoe seen in photo exhibition (3)

11 Harshly blaming salesman with wanderlust (9)

12 Fragile thread binding sleeveless jacket (5)

14 Take a breath to motivate (7)

16 Disease of mother left with song (7) 18 Throw away and leave house! (5) 19 Painting even now has vigour (5,4) 20 My American vegetable is covered (3) 21 A capital city reduced by a smell (5) 22 Sewing tools pointless, mostly (7) DOWN

1 Versatile equipment guilty of mistake in millimetre­s (8)

2 Part of church where peas mushy (4) 3 Go off after wagon to get vegetable (6) 4 Some French post sorted for warehouses (6)

5 Polite chap, a non-soldier (8) 6 Threat to shipping in October gales (4)

8 Request for hard work (11)

13 Lounge around with one soft drink that’s sweet (8)

15 Sweet arrangemen­t of semitones with one missing (4,4)

17 Put in charge again (6) 18 Half of sombre soldiers reach German port (6) 19 Stitching vein (4) 20 Christmas, when you lie heartlessl­y (4)

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