Crossword for Sat, 28/Aug/2021

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Across
1: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

7: Derive the component of metal fastener (5)

9: Cabal resolved hot issue of headgear (9)

10: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

11: Kiss I love in the morning, with a twitch taken to be self-evident (9)

12: Sailor takes gym class to slim down (5)

13: Get into the archeology scene. (3)

14: Church assembly contributing to heresy? No dice! (5)

15: Mark in Russian bar, empty the night before (5)

17: Louse can rise (3)

18: Falstaff's first clever lie (5)

20: I am in football country for bankruptcy (9)

21: Smells renovated doors (5)

22: Whip me. Our lust is timid (9)

23: Symbol to recognize (5)

24: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)
Down
1: Storm entropically providing misery (7)

2: Back in November, tilers had some measure of quantity (5)

3: Cant this band collect any moss? (7,6)

4: Abandons the tents? (7)

5: Tint bark clogs to provide foot support (8,5)

6: Briefly viewed bigot's heart, opened like a boil (7)

8: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

9: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

15: Jumps all over bees swarming rat (7)

16: Hesitation before a certain deletion (7)

19: Heart of delicatessen, certainly, is meat (7)

21: Ensemble originally formed with ocarina, cello, theremin, euphonium, and tabla (5)




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