Crossword for Wed, 16/Aug/2023

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Across
1: Vapour in the street the final morning (5)

4: Mixed bag to drain into tip or refuse (9)

8: Double profit repeatedly (5,3,5)

9: Result of sleeping in currently fashionable paintings (4,5)

11: German painter in a southern state (5)

13: Logical oil Polish chap applied (13)

16: How a diver might marry (4,3,6)

17: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

19: Tossing and turning, I wondered what the comforter might be made of (9)

21: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)

22: Measuring unusual flowers (9)

23: Bond leads in The World Is Not Enough (5)

Down
1: Sailor seen in meager nighttime illumination (9)

2: Confer higher rank upon former adversary's first lieutenant (5)

3: Looking back inside at Rik's inimitable revealing outfit (9)

4: Sent one page rewritten in military lingo (11)

5: Squaddies took in lecture (5)

6: Control escape (3)

7: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

10: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

12: Suitable position to occupy in back with revolutionary (5)

13: Starts to prepare every kind of European tea (5)

14: Wild thing sure is greediest (9)

15: Exploits, in Time, founder and glow cold (9)

17: Getting old drink in silver container (5)

18: Gripped by instrument, a longish claw (5)

20: Pygmy antelope or Nile wader without a tail (5)

21: See, you are a cad. (3)





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