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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Cloth is tip-top if one is concerned with worldly things (11)

7. Row, row, row your boat - this boat! (7)

9. Half-fare to Kelburn, first part of which isn’t real (4)

11. If morally lax, there’s nothing to misplace outside (5)

12. A certain distance round, did one get lost at the centre? (6)

14. A specific sun-top, details of which may be seen (11)

18. Right-hand page is right for college head (6)

20. Sort of bird is one that may go off the deep end (5)

22. Fellow with a crack in the cheek (4)

23. Sort of bulb fitting that’s additional to rifle (7)

24. How could Trident fail to have percolated through? (11)

Down

2. Apache State of Zion Arab doesn’t completely destroy (7)

3. Help confusion that surrounds the East to be an inspiration (4)

4. Is sober, and stated to be about half-tt (5)

5. Bloom is at its top, but may go after game (5)

6. Turn to the whistle-blower with hesitancy (5)

8. Return one with no return, it being the poll (8)

10. Time when one isn’t batting at the agricultural show? (5,3)

13. Top pilot in the service is a winner (3)

15. The Right even give four away to exact retribution (7)

16. Conjuror may show one some time at the helm (5)

17. Talk foolishly, quietly, then tear about (5)

19. Sixty-six foot shops under the same management (5)

21. Help one to do a wager (4)

Puzzles

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