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Across

  1. 1
    Medicinal amount (4)
  2. 3
    Christened (8)
  3. 8
    European flatfish (4)
  4. 9
    Decorate with colours (8)
  5. 11
    Lad shoutin' (anag) (10)
  6. 14
    Diverse (6)
  7. 15
    Act in accordance with someone's rules, commands or wishes (6)
  8. 17
    Making legitimate (10)
  9. 20
    Around midday (8)
  10. 21
    Volcanic flow (4)
  11. 22
    Seed pod pulp eaten fresh or cooked with rice and fish or preserved in curries and chutneys (8)
  12. 23
    Ancient Greek god, son of Rhea and Cronus (4)

Down

  1. 1
    Cause to go into a solution (8)
  2. 2
    Containing or bringing a timely (health) warning (8)
  3. 4
    Naval fighting force (6)
  4. 5
    (Of an instrument) capable of being retracted and protruded (10)
  5. 6
    Magnitude (4)
  6. 7
    Low hill of sand, called in a desert a barkhan (4)
  7. 10
    Leading light in one's field, eg fashion, sport, arts (10)
  8. 12
    Material wasted (8)
  9. 13
    Monocle, or spectacles in plural (8)
  10. 16
    Abel ------, Dutch discoverer of New Zealand (6)
  11. 18
    Biting pest (4)
  12. 19
    Rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand, clay and decaying organic materials (4)