Crossword for Thu, 5/Jan/2017

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Across
1: In the manner of a girl (3)

3: Celebration geared for retirement (6,5)

8: Do I have the capacity to be good-natured? (7)

10: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

11: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)

12: Grass surrounds cask, newly calibrated (7)

14: Leaders of Orioles and Rangers stick in the dugout? (3)

15: Inactive side (3)

17: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

18: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

19: Yellow fowl (7)

20: Anger that is constraining response (3)

21: Begins seeing another divorcee? Deplorable. (3)

22: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

23: Small drinks for each young man's agent (11)

24: Bounder beheaded by slippery swimmer (3)

Down
1: Acknowledging access (9)

2: Keep back a missing ingredient for gunpowder (5)

4: Prejudice runs wild in a legal system (13)

5: Bird accompanying gangster or outlaw (5,4)

6: Give in and offer up (5)

7: Bill board reflected family meal extra (5,6)

8: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

9: Intruders bury proles in pieces (11).

13: Ceremonial lamb turned about a revolving spit (9)

16: Tool placed under sack as a safety precaution (4,5)

19: Volcano tops 100-1 odds at last (5)

21: Monsieur is immersed in unspecified French river (5)





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