Crossword for Thu, 25/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Norm even had a good time (7)

5: Condemned without love, like the Vatican (5)

8: Lada, for example, gets favourite treatment for VIPs (3,6)

9: University supporters returning in confusion (5)

10: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

11: On your feet! (8,5)

15: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

18: Modernise rear, in the opinion of escort (5,2,2,4)

21: Tears as leading character in romance dies (5)

22: Offering advice, King takes over one bit, zany initially (9)

23: Plant in the edges of the first row (5)

24: Road reaches objectives. (7)

Down
1: Ten orphans pointlessly wander around the Acropolis. (9)

2: Edits Russian performances (7)

3: Frozen awkwardly, i.e. a tin man (9)

4: Drank up in station (5)

5: Got off the coach tired, on Eastern time (9)

6: Stone or card (7)

7: Will, in the past, cried out 'timber' (5)

9: Take Chair in university (3)

12: Game for artist holding tip of paintbrush right (4,5)

13: Central Slovak airport damaged 16-down (9)

14: Prune plums for reserves, once more (9)

16: Against trailing machine after cropping wine (7)

17: Solitary one finally putting me back in service (7)

18: Chiefly toast mother country (5)

19: Oxygen is pretty amusing. (3)

20: Path of planet - or particle (5)





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