Crossword for Tue, 16/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Beauty stripping top and bottom is an additional feature (3)

3: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

8: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

10: Jeep model went along to show (5)

11: Surer rate confused Washington money maker (9)

12: Perfume ingredient extracted from lamb ..... er, gristle (9)

13: 25-down Point in these pastimes to clash with 26-across? (5,6)

15: Woodland deity posed six months (5)

16: Relaxed back at vicarage with a NZ channel (6,3)

19: Duck putting string on ancient peeper (9)

21: Headless rodent left by bird (5)

22: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

23: Hang back, keeping right next to person buying a jumper (11)

24: Fiction position (3)

Down
1: Cleopatra and her court's quirky pet saying (9)

2: Something good made by mini drink packer! (6,7)

3: A right given to colliery worker or sailor (7)

4: Hang around and look at that old Roman road (6)

5: Gloomy unless tailing a bit of skirt (7)

6: The Irish are working for small clubs (5)

7: Navigate by terse directions (5)

9: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

14: Unimportant Emma? Still upset? (5,4)

16: Quiver made from wild elm root (7)

17: Play faster in last 3/4 of piece with bass held backward (5,2)

18: One embracing a lover with a little pizzazz (7)

19: Good Republican source of life-giving system for short-handed office workers (5)

20: Great stories about spice (5)





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