Music No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Music) standard puzzle: 27 clues on a 11×11 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. Leaders at the opening of Harrods give a cry of delight (3)
3. Cool pic doctored to reveal the smallest woodwind (7)
7. Coral is arranged for a Christmas song (5)
8. Discounts announced for the ship's canvas (5)
10. One wizard's reflection (5)
11. Searches without a leader become hazards (5)
13. Relations, by the sound of it, are hard workers (4)
14. Fashionable dress for a nun to live in (7)
16. Cut up and gamble (4)
17. A cent minted anew to pass into law (5)
19. Equivocate about an hour at the border (5)
21. Ring inserted in a snout makes a loop (5)
22. Hearing a trail being reconstructed (5)
23. With money up front, moving at a walking pace (7)
24. Tip for forty winks (3)

Down

1. Come about — company turned up with a mongrel (5)
2. Heavenly strings and one group of notes make an early keyboard (11)
3. Wax from Warsaw (6)
4. A pouch turned over is a Spanish home (4)
5. The Far East at a charged particle gives a sense of direction (11)
6. Love a sister's retreat in the desert (5)
9. Bit of Niagara turning up once more (5)
12. Joints of a king born in the south (5)
15. Root out the French bug (6)
16. Italian lady raised in Anno Domini (5)
18. Spring bulb curiously lit up (5)
20. Dane upset, becoming a faculty head (4)

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