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Across
- 7. Common person's word primarily for Yankee peace officer (6)
- 8. Party's election setback resulting in a blob (6)
- 10. 'Lifting weight's silly' against 'Bravo, good lifting weight' (4-4)
- 11. Some growth in moles (6)
- 12. Figures cheat is captured (5)
- 14. Readily drained a dram poured at sea, traditionally drink when the sun's over this? (7)
- 15. Option taken in legal self-defense, copper for one gets the picture (3,5,7)
- 18. Recreation perhaps in China for 9 months, do hang around sweetheart (3-4)
- 19. Split seconds to go below (5)
- 20. Fabric lining in pricy kid gloves (6)
- 21. Key in the hour leaving alarm set to ring around one (8)
- 23. Left isolated by female, a cross to bear (6)
- 24. Halcyon days on earth? Delightful conclusion at first (6)
Down
- 1. Wave to show meal is hot (8)
- 2. Expression expressing American seaman? (4)
- 3. Pointers for additional entries, to show caution on the way up (6)
- 4. Rule, one of the finest covering examination of the body (8)
- 5. Murky scam lured a deviant (5,2,3)
- 6. Matter orally expressed in conversation, a little hiding place (6)
- 9. Empathy left out, legal acts to follow established rules (4,3,4)
- 13. Rotten chef sacked over tofu served without preparation (3,3,4)
- 16. Ironclad weathering a lot, regularly scrubbed rust spots in sight (8)
- 17. Usual condition in Japanese theatre: shut up in line (8)
- 18. Being fabulous point in time? Just the opposite (6)
- 19. Self-possessed family member losing head, messed up (6)
- 22. Children take over flat overhead? (4)
