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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 As told in the family? (7)

7 Green type? (5)

9 Diana, a kind of water-nymph (5)

10 Usual practice at natural home (7)

12 He doesn’t drink it would seem when adding up golf scores (11)

14 Can’t be on strike, or married? (11)

18 Barge with less cargo? (7)

19 Social gathering for politicians? (5)

21 Enchantment brings a number misfortune (5)

22 Deduce it isn’t a burning horror (7)

DOWN

1 State of penal system (5)

2 Father was retarded in developing sense of taste (6)

3 & 20DnImplore somebody to leave (6)

4 Such a contradiction could be nailed (6)

5 Smashing wave? (7)

8 Biased, but not completely? (7)

11 Won’t he give up the gum habit? (7)

13 Visibly intelligent grasp? (7)

15 Hoarse when on dry land (6)

16 He has a following, of course (6)

17 Presumably not where spectators sit (5)

20 See 3 Down

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