Linda Carson's Cryptic Crossword

Cryptic Crossword: Indecent, This

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Across

Indecent, this, when there's lots of publicity (8)
Wept, you say, about scalp showing? (4)
Watch it well, I say; it's the way to the top (5)
10 Tom likes chick noises (7)
11 I hears I sees spectators (12)
13 Meditated without a rug; that's better (6)
14 The relic I cleaned holds cold water (6)
17 Humiliating grins as Amber melts (12)
20 Join up with fool and profit about a hundred (7)
21 When Annie's upset she gets silly (5)
22 Nimble spy hides royal crown (4)
23 Plan unending ascent from a Spanish river (8)

Down

Alternately enlisted? (4)
It's a terrible pity, pal, that they have bills (7)
We hear hay covers fruit (12)
If it's ill, house has red spots (6)
It's also known as folding a sail (5)
Shortened excavation, tested lead-free (8)
Repeated banging produces this result (12)
12 Crude fen cesspool has walls (8)
15 Turn a cute R.N. into a man who's hung like a horse (7)
16 Ruse ninety-nine only used after diplomacy (6)
18 It's a mistake to pull it in public (5)
19 I've told them to hold the embargo (4)


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