Crossword

Speaker of several languages (8)

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23

Across

1

Speaker of several languages (8)

5

Transmit or prove (4)

9

Discern (5)

10

Sword (7)

11

Tightwad (5-7)

13

Blotto (6)

14

Plant with shoots providing panda food (6)

17

Mutual affection (12)

20

Upstart (7)

21

Confess (5)

22

Youth (4)

23

Not long back (8)

Down

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Small bunch of flowers (4)

2

Flax grain (7)

3

Gentle sixteenth-century tune (12)

4

Fill (6)

6

Moor (5)

7

Loo (8)

8

Public school activity (4,4,4)

12

Soup vessel (8)

15

Carpet alongside tub (4,3)

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13 across – time (6)

18

Runes (anag.) (5)

19

Prop (4)