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Cryptic again this week. If you prefer to work on the interactive version or to print a pdf of the crossword, click on this LINK.

Across

            1            Huntsman’s shouts keep the score, with local horse mostly coming behind (5-3)

            8            A French company; unusual in Scotland (4)

            10            Effusively sentimental Shetland island viol to shun (5)

            11            Trumpeters silver friends (6)

            12            Dreadful local bind producing anthracite (5,4)

            14            Laborious work pursued by Greek love god, with energy (7)

            16            Becoming less, losing resistance and dying (9)

            18            Those who dislike work the most, unusually listed (6)

            19            Round domes inherent to Catholicism (5)

            20            Come to be of one mind – not right – off the straight in Glasgow (4)

            21            People who read ponderously, preachers lacking drive! (8)

Down

            1            Haphazardly distribute (with no hint of sifting) muddy sediment (9)

            2            Hang loose around this person of British extraction (5)

            3            Look, an eastern European, one receiving temporary money (6)

            4            Mythical ash tree’s unknown heartless god discovered in garbled grails (9)

            5            Sion smog swirling, undergoing diffusion of liquids (8)

            6            Quiet! First class branch of Islam! (4)

            7            Soy glides nastily getting negative praises (9)

            9            Go at high speed – the speed of light – run without energy producing this sound? (4-4)

            13            Close to the sides and near the seashore – not active (6)

            15            Admit it is missing from rot gut (5)

            17            Carelessly shed Old English letters (4)

Here is last week’s solution:

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