PA Puzzles - Crossword

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1 Trained leader to request job to do (4)
3 Get through examination with skill – but only just satisfactorily (8)
9 Tuneless and possibly damp? (7)
10 Sailor half-takes the tiller with greater skill (5)
11 Imposing percussion examination at altitude? (4-8)
13 Perfection achieved as a beginner (6)
15 The sun is out, even poetically, but not observed (6)
17 Brief sale fun, but not to be tolerated (12)
20 Knowledge carrying a little weight (5)
21 Cry of derision from the motorist? (7)
22 Try gains off the straight and narrow (8)
23 I had taken the French to be unemployed (4)

DOWN

1 Concerning pathetic contact (8)
2 Made a song about fifty using jargon (5)
4 For part of the year do urge warmth of passion (6)
5 A chamber without seats? (8-4)
6 Graduate has spear to give him equilibrium (7)
7 Feet in an enclosure (4)
8 Race in angry state? (5-7)
12 Conspiring as members of sporting association? (2-6)
14 Sour stuff in grave (7)
16 Hound, half-deaf, will hang around (6)
18 Tie up about fifty who cannot see (5)
19 Mountains mentioned in an unusual psalm (4)

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