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1 Item of cutlery — Norse despots

(anag) (12)

9 Thicket (5)

10 Intervene rudely (5,2)

11 Supported by (4)

12 Crested parrot, often kept as a cage

bird (8)

14 Divine (6)

15 Residential district on the outskirts

of a city (6)

18 Worldly (8)

20 Not fake (4)

22 Seventh heaven? (7)

23 Part of a golf course (5)

24 Go-getting (12)

Down

2 Take advantage (of) (7)

3 Animal fat (4)

4 Long thin strip (6)

5 Begin (to play music?) (6,2)

6 Public (5)

7 Military doctor or chaplain? (3-9)

8 Person one doesn’t know well (12)

13 Person not willing or able to change

(8)

16 Contaminated (7)

17 Middle Eastern marketplace

(sounds odd!) (6)

19 Be entitled to (5)

21 A long time (4)