Crossword for Fri, 1/Feb/2019

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Across
1: Popular buzz over an animal (7)

4: Lighter note: tin soldier's back (7)

8: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

10: Float me a loan covering breakfast, perhaps (7)

11: Looked over recording that included Sea Change (5)

12: Interprets, for the audience, the woodwinds (5)

13: Stranger, in turn, had an accident (3-3-3)

15: Sarcastic critic, alas drunk, missing bit of comedy (9)

19: 18-across Buyers should check this run around shops (5,5)

20: Deputy at clock centre sounds hesitant (5)

21: Dilapidated city slum without question a source of sectariansim. (7)

22: He explored star (7,6)

23: Expert in scriptural interpretation in Devon River to fetch sweetheart (7)

24: Which creatures are found in factions? (7)

Down
2: Halest hesitater is lost (9)

3: Mum gets customers some guns (7)

4: 49 + 51: 101? To start with, that's wrong (7)

5: 'Naked Gun' actor prepares to be dubbed in (in soundtrack) (7)

6: Flirted terribly, and on your example dated start-ups (5)

7: Uncouth chaps met Engel under stress. (4,9)

8: Paraphrasing 'A Certain Sport': 'Wait till next year!' (13)

9: Is this small cockatoo a fool? (5)

14: Somehow it is clear and practical (9)

16: Save the forests regarding a series (7)

17: Associate to give 25-down up, cryptically? (7)

18: Transfer back beat (5)

19: Midwestern city lost its soul (2,5)

20: It's big where some Ambassadors are at? (5)





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