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Across 6—Dissolute fellow going for a commission. (4-3)

7—Persist in using fire-curtains. (5) 9—Punishing for plane crash. (5) 10—Offer comfort from the organ keyboard. (7) 12—Give too little emphasis to feeling to strain? (5, 6) 14—Able to be seen intuitively? (6, 5) 18— Not always victorious, but charming? (7) 19— The colour of most of the hall where MPs meet. (5) 21— applications for sources of inspiration. (5) 22— Imply there isn’t a blaze. (7)

Down 1— Animal arrived carrying a learner. (5) 2— Get back in gear. (6) 3— A foot farther back. (3) 4— Are set as a tricky problem. (6) 5— Sword could injure girl. (7) B—Row back to vessel for service. (7) 11—Enclosure comes to mean wrong pseudonym. (3, 4) 13—Could appear pathetic if lit up. (7) . 15— He lost lodging-place. (6) 16— Play in village. (6) 17— Girls in trousers? (5) 20—Single item of stationery. (3) (Solution tomorrow)

Saturday’s solution

Across: 1, Seconds out; 7, Piece; 8, Reverse; 10, Colossal; 11, Ague; 13, Cobweb; 15, Pantry; 17, Agog; 18, On the dot; 21, Tempera; 22, Unite; 23, Pretty well.

Down: 1, Shell; 2, Chess set; 3, Norway; 4, Save; 5, Upright; 6, Spacecraft; 9, Every other; 12, Madhouse; 14, Bloomer; 16, Uneasy; 19, Drill; 20, Pelt.