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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Tense because out of practice (9)

8 Perfume starts a romantic interlude (5)

9 Object of broadcast recital (7)

10 Composer of fine lines in order to eat (6)

11 Roar and bluster about the Spanish (6)

12 Intrude by chance or accident (8)

15 Painting of a happy lad? (8)

18 Anyone in it is out (6)

20 Observing it’s not a gin cocktail (6)

21 Contrive to rig by prejudice (7)

22 Appearing in robes entirely too voluminous (5)

23 The farthest one will be from a bank (9)

DOWN

2 Something extra about the point is in code (5)

3 Stay over with the French in order to eat (6)

4 Knows beyond doubt there’s plenty of water? (4,4)

5 He stops to interfere (6)

6 It offers travellers alternative routes in one (7)

7 Just part (4,5)

11 One having a sea view? (3,6)

13 The end of hangings? (8)

14 He provides French wine with the rent perhaps (7)

16 A four-foot cycle (6)

17 A party is hard work (6)

19 About time (5)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Without hesitation (4,1,4)

8 Another time (5)

9 To quarrel (4,3)

10 Disengage and remove (6)

11 Flavour with salt, herbs etc. (6)

12 Collapse (8)

15 Sherlock Holmes’s archenemy (8)

18 Periphery (6)

20 Roman army unit (6)

21 Side-to-side measurement (7)

22 Given on oath (5)

23 Damage (9)

DOWN

2 Likeness (5)

3 Secure support of (6)

4 Spend wastefully (8)

5 Inn (6)

6 Remote (7)

7 At risk (2,3,4)

11 Brazen (9)

13 Traveller on foot (8)

14 Coerce by harassment (7)

16 On all sides (6)

17 Allay suspicions of (6)

Solutions to Yesterday’s puzzles

19 Make progress (3,2)