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Cryptic Crossword #1

Difficulty: * * *   (explanation of difficulty)

Instructions: Fill in each white-coloured box with a single letter, corresponding to the letters in each answer. When finished, click the "Check solution" button to check your solution.

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Down

  1. On empty caboose a single time (4)
  2. Move beyond and renovate, and scent envelopes room initially (9)
  3. Vehicle to move freight (5)
  4. Defendant damnable? Not right (7)
  5. Showed Debi the plays involving deity's heart around 10:00 (9)
  6. Thin pointed object for paid player needing to be emptied? (5)
  7. Next tonic I mix results in mass death (10)
  8. Maybe alerts are not as fresh (6)
  9. Called true half-elephant "Sharpened" (10)
  10. Volatile entrant is upset (9)
  11. Makes use of some char Ness eschewed (9)
  12. Examined rising of some cadet fishmermen (6)
  13. Infidel loses heart after ten in America spoon perhaps (7)
  14. Excuse: I bail poorly (5)
  15. Cauterize branches (some of them) for animal (5)
  16. We object: Editor is not new! (4)

Across

  1. Eye doctor to choose, I see, auditors I abandon heartlessly (8)
  2. Pope corrected the French, men and women (6)
  3. Note locks for seat (5)
  4. Vicious court that dissolved (3-6)
  5. Taking up quarters and Italian flower to United States (Alabama) (8)
  6. Start being eccentric (5)
  7. Kicked out divers cede jet (7)
  8. Chatter erratically and step up or down (7)
  9. Creates affection for increases in cost (7)
  10. Sustain German and self around April 3rd (7)
  11. Mends broken shale (5)
  12. Poor "E-Z Friend" is agitated (8)
  13. Silent, naked miser enters wrong lesson (9)
  14. Strikes animals without bad heart (5)
  15. Soft drink from Denmark, I hear? (6)
  16. Tribes accepted direction before Edward cured of leprosy (8)