Crossword for Thu, 24/Aug/2017

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Across
1: Praiseworthy naval officer, English, found around boat's prow (9)

4: Entice substitute to drink. (5)

7: Vicious return to professional serve reveals the inequality. (13)

8: Side with university after regarding the 'left behind' matter (7)

10: It's not the editor in chief that looked threatening (7)

11: Tinkers jump in children's world (3,4)

12: Fires possibly singe it (7)

14: Arena performer's damage involving time and trouble (7)

16: It administers medicine to a clumsy one (7)

18: Uncovered some letters written back in Sumerian epoch (4-3)

20: More stylish bronze-backed row of seats (7)

21: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

22: Tied down holding back fighting (5)

23: Blessed? Battered if I'd spoken (9)
Down
1: Mathematician's analysis of former Vice President's movements? (9)

2: Nude redhead receiving backward glance is one serving drinks (9)

3: Cooped up in Essex: pelicans, it would turn out (5)

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

5: I'm great novel detective (7)

6: Six points making a case for one in good shape (5)

7: Gloomy semi-dull firmament (5)

9: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

12: Our neighbour recorded singles in the sub-continent (9)

13: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

15: There is a Santa, perhaps (7)

17: Probed announcer's self-esteem (5)

18: Nothing, nothing in shape (5)

19: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)




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