Crossword for Sun, 9/Feb/2020

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Across
1: Step right in cement mixture (9)

6: When Eve rued core? Not once! (5)

8: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

9: Help found in Adelaide. (3)

10: Art and Fred, horsing around, draw up new plan (7)

11: Upright drunk's interjection interrupts the others briefly (7)

12: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

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

17: One might be uplifted if a cockney spoke of arts such as opera. (7)

20: Dinner trousers get sodden at drinks. (4)

21: Anyway - no! (3)

22: Difficult book about Baltic currency (11)

23: West's last: bottom spade, perhaps (5)

24: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)
Down
1: Distraught minister loses son in transition time (7)

2: Secretly include railroad in family future (13)

3: 'Look at quickly,' I cry loudly (7)

4: How Danson signs letters inside out? (7)

5: Short time for the Irish (5)

6: Nick's not at church (5)

7: Warning: Reverend Spooner's run off with newspaper (3,4)

9: Cheaper oil, gas distributed in Island chains (13)

13: Run amok while covered in red snack food (7)

14: Mistakenly reboot C: in spooky month (7)

15: Unskillful partner wearing gold ring, at first (7)

16: Southern U.S. writer Dickey's introduction put on hold (7)

18: Bring Father back to hang buckets on maples again (5)

19: Damsels primarily enthralled by romances in forests (5)




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