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This week’s crossword is an easy cryptic crossword with lots of approachable anagrams, reversed words and the like. If you would like to work on the interactive version, click here. The link will take you to the crossword compiler page.

Across

7 Twisted nose is comely in Scotland (6)

8 Palaver with no point primarily about about animals in an immature state (6)

9 One time idle fancy with energy would become the blaze of a fire (4)

10 Rice came unfortunately in sweet frozen food (3,5)

11 Dreams I falsely interpret wrongly (7)

13 Coats not in order in horse-racing venue (5)

15 Japan not beginning to produce a winning score in Judo (5)

17 No new style child is created to reduce the chance of slipping (7)

20 Day and night initially Geneva in a ferment in wine harvest (8)

21 Lean on inverted musical instrument (4)

23 Spanish sword or a spade remodelled (6)

24 Tree rat not oddly very endless plunderer (6)

Down

1 Festive season for a boy however you read it (4)

2 Taxmen holding one or other substance differing only in energy state and half life from another (6)

3 The French Mediterranean city returns notably creative (7)

4 Pleasingly smooth bottoms of ships returned (5)

5 Brothers in Geneva, liberated, embracing right, and ultimately courteous (6)

6 Marocain transformed into something fanciful and extravagant (8)

12 Politican in a drunken state in France with not a hint of veracity produces motto (8)

14 To prepare beforehand part of an upper limb (7)

16 Trying experience before old treatment (6)

18 Demented last gasp with no additional information in prison (6)

19 Want, we’re told, to massage (5)

22 Drug addict’s warped ruse (4)

Here is last week’s solution.

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