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Answer next week.

ACROSS 7 Any nourishing substance (8) 8 Regrettably (4) 9 Suppose (6) 10 Shake, rock (6) 11 Eight-sided figure (7) 13 Acknowledge (5) 15 Preliminary outline (5) 17 Passenger’s suitcases (7) 19 Set a tape again (6) 21 Bloom on a plant (6) 23 Clairvoyant, prophet (4) 24 Luxury handbag company (8)

DOWN

1 Religious sisters (4) 2 Shock (6) 3 Progress (7) 4 Keep under hatches (4) 5 Having sharp spikes (6) 6 Flirting (8) 12 Trapped in a desperate position (8) 14 City and port in New York State (7) 16 Monastery (6) 18 Kowtow (6) 20 Abandon, get rid of (4) 22 Organs which pick up sound (4)