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Across
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dessert drink to filter off (6,6) | SHERRYTRIFLE |
| 8 | Furnishing colours in code correct (5) | DECOR |
| 9 | Outclass sage (put out) (7) | UPSTAGE |
| 10 | Any blog replacing writing implement? Far from it! (2,1,4,5) | BYALONGCHALK |
| 12 | Top businessman’s overfed pet? (3,3) | FATCAT |
| 14 | Designate as an indicator (6) | ASSIGN |
| 17 | Another coming to cultivate fruit on bent cane (12) | REAPPEARANCE |
| 21 | Miser pullin’ back (7) | NIGGARD |
| 22 | Light brown? I beg to differ – mid-red! (5) | BEIGE |
| 23 | Teacher misheard sets, unfortunately (12) | HEADMISTRESS |
Down
| Number | Clues | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fusses over drink (4) | SODA |
| 2 | Directions to dark room make it hard to read (7) | ENCRYPT |
| 3 | Right Russian river in the countryside (5) | RURAL |
| 4 | School shirker sounds like model worker (6) | TRUANT |
| 5 | Six-footers in groups (7) | INSECTS |
| 6 | Peruvian beast turns a shopping area over (5) | LLAMA |
| 7 | Wooden platform for putting on the floor (7) | DECKING |
| 11 | Insult father by placing in a vessel (7) | AFFRONT |
| 13 | Give a big hand for mobile extra acclaim (7) | APPLAUD |
| 15 | Tend, when queuing, to hold cape (7) | INCLINE |
| 16 | Irish police pull up road (6) | GARDAI |
| 18 | Disagree about riverless French region (5) | ARGUE |
| 19 | Somewhat outside medium range (5) | AMBIT |
| 20 | The French ship a smaller quantity (4) | LESS |