PA Puzzles - Crossword

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1 Sphere on which one is alert and informed (4)
8 Heard too in broadcasting (2,3,5)
9 Design of a skirt likely to invite trouble (3,3,2)
10 Plunder to get implement back (4)
12 A timely ninefold saver (6)
14 Set apart to remove the franchise? (6)
15 Not still affecting with emotion (6)
17 Band leader given command at the frontier (6)
18 Weed where the ships come in (4)
19 Check account no one backs in performer's streak (8)
21 A knight in a dilemma made to reconsider (5,5)
22 After that, some growth ensues (4)

DOWN

2 Also got let out ready for the off (3,3,2,2)
3 Spend time idly getting bread (4)
4 Curved span on street needs stiffening (6)
5 Like an MP not standing? (6)
6 Come a cropper at the beginning of winter? (4,4)
7 Wine on the red side (4)
11 Attached to one's residence at the firm's expense (2,3,5)
13 Spare monarch using his brain (8)
16 Leave via former Portuguese colony in India (2,4)
17 Blamed for creating a madhouse (6)
18 Show when the fruit was produced? (4)
20 Colour of one in explosive (4)

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