Salmon's Cryptic no.6


Cryptic Crossword no.6

3, 5, 8, 12, 16 and 24 are of a kind.

ACROSS

..1...Home of ideal homes (7)
..8...Soil breaker gets the point in local area (7)
..9...An idiot, as in flags (7)
10...Live within means, the end will disturb (7)
11...Rarely meeting, one enters the exact counterpart (5)
13...Turn inside out to tint Rover ... (9)
15... ... and urge Radar to adopt part of the army (9)
18...Edgar troubled by his degree ... (5)
21... ... while dear elf is worried about the Eurosceptics’ bête noire ... (7)
22... ... and a crazy teacher embraces a few similar chemical compounds (7)
23...Perform and kill (7)
24...Son held in local 14 (7)
DOWN

..1...Decorative thing with dart — otherwise protest gets caught out (5)
..2...Yen to join selection board with Lily (5)
..3...Plunging apron forms a key local ensemble (8,5)
..4...Help to confound stasis (6)
..5...Sad frog vendor goes walkabout in local 14 (8,5)
..6...Sounds like French cheeses are an easy task (6)
..7...Dimly illuminated, the fool swallows 51 (6)
12...Local 14 in annual holiday (4)
14...Pistol gets one in mine passage (4)
15...The automatic response of what we hear the glass does (6)
16...A local saint to end war (6)
17...Chap tells porkies to his friends (6)
19...Alter and surround setter (5)
20...Noise made by a microscopic dye (5)


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