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Across 1— The status of being a candidate? (8) 5— Compete with Western opinion. (4) 9—The answer is one, of course. (4) 10— Concealed when giving a beating? (2,6) 11— in the lead? What a muddle! (3-2) 12— Getting a mate is its object. (3-4) 13— Where one is wide open to all sorts of treatment. (6, 7) 18— Drug saved tie, perhaps. (8) 19— Scold for speed? (4) 20— Rope for tying up boat or artist. (7) 21— A girl about right to take to the altar? (5) 22— Close within a fortnight. (4) 23— Wrong-headed production of half-proper poetry. (8) Down 2— Be almost doubly unfaithful? (7) 3— Admittedly bound to change. (2,5) 4— In which there may be rhyme but no reason? (8, 5) 6— Copy it in one winning move. (7) 7— Funny stuff from a happy dog? (7) 8— He’s after a lot, of course. (6) 13— Somehow put sand in receptacle for waste. (7) 14— Showing agreement when off one’s guard? (7) 15— Cunning design of statue. (6) 16— Clothing old enough to go for refuse? (7) 17— Happy anniversary wishes for things to be sent back? (7) (Solution tomorrow) Saturday’s solution Across: 1, Lilian; 4, Ransom; 9, Gives one’s word; 10, Collect; 11, Natal; 12, Skate; 14, Refer, 18, Okapi; 19, Rosette; 21, Knock-out punch; 22, Nudity, 23, Wagers. j Down: 1, Legacy; 2, Live like a lord; 3, Aisle; 5, Absence; 6, Short sentence; 7, Models; 8, Unity; 13, Trinket; 15,sLook in; 16, Proud,, 17, Meshes; 20, Sejfla.