Gentle No. 4 — cryptic crossword

A gentle puzzle: 19 clues on a 9×9 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Confess, er, to the proprietor (5)
4. Deliver a dish (4)
6. Cut by the editor and revised (6)
7. Rain hard, or serve the drinks (4)
9. Trying to truss self up, badly (9)
12. Kind to the keyboard (4)
13. Photographer's request for a dairy product (6)
15. Ring writer to be frank (4)
16. Time and again, one of the ten (5)

Down

1. Ancient part of school desk (3)
2. Tell of tiny changes (6)
3. Red lid twisted into a puzzle (6)
4. Kick in some footwear (4)
5. Used to be a broken ewer (4)
7. Analyse nothing for the madman (6)
8. Get urn repaired — it is pressing (6)
10. Pets sent back a pace (4)
11. On top of that, up and running (4)
14. Boy hidden in a lesson (3)

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