Crossword for Tue, 27/Jul/2021

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Across
1: Layperson to straighten us clear (7)

5: Put off a record player and run out after orchestra leader (7)

8: Does the wandering hero duly hostess perplex? (7)

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

11: Breaking promise, strip back nightie (9)

13: Raise streamlined submarine stabilizers! (5)

14: 18-across Buyers should check this run around shops (5,5)

16: Prominent performer with Peru's wild climbing rodents (9)

20: Chewed-up gum in tater -- how toothsome (5-8)

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

23: Elves distressed priests (7)

24: Gets in boats at sea (7)

Down
1: Shocking situations, losing first of criminal's footwear (7)

2: Tea a fizzy drink? What a farce! (7)

3: Burdened young man with couple of encumbrances (5)

4: Reunite diverse followers (7)

5: Original caliph adds brave face to UK/Arab struggle (3-4)

6: Naughty pedestrian sounds Scotch? (9)

7: Sterne's novel settlers (7)

9: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)

12: Survey mutants with missing shells for a possible cause of damage (9)

14: A bit of the English course may cause embarrassing situations (7)

15: Pitcher, lunatic, not married (5)

16: They teach large groups of swimmers (7)

17: Recognise terrible smell in Vespers for the Dead? (7)

18: Journey to get crude oil in capital (7)

19: Go back to skyscraper's easternmost exit (7)

21: Twilight: time for affair (5)





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