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Toughie No. 11 — cryptic crossword

A toughie puzzle: 44 clues on a 15×15 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. Wet weather stoppage — I'll come another day (4,5)
  2. Wounds from roses, badly arranged (5)
  3. Bathing in some pure freshwater to revive (7)
  4. Leavers reformed — quite a few (7)
  5. Demolish, we hear, or build up (5)
  6. Arrive on the beat and regain consciousness (4,5)
  7. Papers taking in the church? Chilled (4)
  8. Put in, without a second, is unreactive (5)
  9. Worker one is against (4)
  10. One who may be spiritual or temporal (4)
  11. Beat about for a test version (4)
  12. Amnesiac state, curtailed, is a risky Japanese dish (4)
  13. Bound to be found in the whole apple (4)
  14. Casual shirts by a river in the North East (4)
  15. Airy spirit — real, I fancy! (5)
  16. Horse brought back with a thousand for the mob (4)
  17. Customer to cook eel for the regulars (9)
  18. Permit a learner feeling low (5)
  19. Take off at a time it is altered (7)
  20. Belt of semis all round the city (7)
  21. Chessman losing king in the dark (5)
  22. Ten hearts, shuffled, and it bodes ill (9)

Down

  1. Underdone, right? Less common (5)
  2. Impose on Clint, if upset (7)
  3. Avoided dropping the first two and munched (6)
  4. Chalet I built is above board (7)
  5. Wool, reportedly, from a disputed region (7)
  6. Always penned in the south-east — harsh! (6)
  7. Concerning way to send traffic elsewhere (7)
  8. Greens with dates from when one was green (5,4)
  9. Own, in Glasgow, a piece of terrain (3)
  10. Suez ire erupting in a taking of power (7)
  11. Aim to finish (3)
  12. Lab riot developing on the ring road (7)
  13. Tenderness put on one leg (9)
  14. Profit at home with a grand, catching up (7)
  15. Obstruction on court, or lease (3)
  16. English mild, having lost caught, is a constituent (7)
  17. One out to satisfy the queen! (7)
  18. General deployed to blow up (7)
  19. Leaders of every great organisation show self-importance (3)
  20. Little one hiding in fantasy (6)
  21. Opening move, endlessly, for one African country (6)
  22. We are stinging picnic spoilers, primarily! (5)

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