Cryptic Crossword

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Across

  1. 3AAligns wonky beacon (6)
  2. 6AHold close, with smitten heart, reassure with no end to tenderness. (8)
  3. 8AI hear entrance to walk (4)
  4. 9AInstinct with almost a smidgen of half-wit (5)
  5. 11AReckless Cinderella, extremely drunk, leers before soiree begins. (8)
  6. 15AOne van going back through opening to find the way. (8)
  7. 18ATake the first roundabout, don't stop and start at lights, then three lefts (5)
  8. 20AMidge puts zest up (4)
  9. 22AYet antic goes awry with doggedness. (8)
  10. 23ATried to catch innocent, reportedly (6)

Down

  1. 1DGloomy virtuoso scowl (7)
  2. 2DDeranged Libra, your third and final date? (6)
  3. 3DOcean in eyes earnest (3)
  4. 4, 10, 17DOver fissures of vertigo, Odysseus felt working flush oesophagus? He's prim and proper. (5,3,5)
  5. 5DToo National socialist for some (4)
  6. 7DBeaten by bush, log and ear in collision (6)
  7. 12DNoughts and crosses, two thirds strategy (6)
  8. 13DPure spite to hide the rest (7)
  9. 14DCan cut lingo in half (3)
  10. 16DBatting round nearing, where did I put ear? (6)
  11. 19DInitially tingly compelling habit! (4)
  12. 21DGobbled up in metamorphosis (3)
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