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DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

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CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Bill takes Diane back a chemical (4)

8. It's very sharp, the blazer Dora ordered (5,5)

9. Blades that are not used for cutting (8)

10. It sounds painful to touch when headless (4)

12. As Pete changes a Spanish coin (6)

14. A singer good at darts? (6)

15. Hopeless sailor caught in a plane (6)

17. Depose when a tune's rewritten (6)

18. Creatures backing a celebrity (4)

19. Fashionabl­e supporter for a score of soldiers (8)

21. Now most oil is refined at half speed (4,6)

22. Need to get out of paradise (4) Down

2. Sporting creatures? (7,3)

3. Small quantity of work given to the doctor (4)

4. A book, a drink and a flower (6)

5. There's nothing French in the book of the East (6)

6. Mistakes for underwear (8)

7. Bighead upset the girl (4)

11. Ring curate up to make peace (4,1,5)

13. I glance, say, on a face (8)

16. An outfitter from Rialto, perhaps (6)

17. It's not just that the funfair hasn't started (6)

18. It's all right for the distress call to come to nothing (2-2)

20. A number fashionabl­e in the North-east (4)

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