No 14593, Friday 19 Sep 2025, Vidwan

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ACROSS

1   Intern's commission, good going for beginning of career (6) ENCAGE EN(-g+c)CAGE

4   Hawk CA smuggling African currency (6) KWACHA* Smuggling as Anind?

10 Runs, runs free and quietly to stimulate (7) REFRESH {R}{FREE*}{SH}

11 One doing wrong, one deposed by father, one that is an impediment (7) SPANNER S(-i+pa)PANNER

12 Again setting up Hitler's basement, possibly (2-13)  RE-ESTABLISHMENT*

13 Hippocrates hunt, perhaps for Java man (15) PITHECANTHROPUS*

14 Member of a UK party, real old bat involved with crime organisation (7,8) LIBERAL DEMOCRAT {REAL+OLD+BAT+CRIME}*

18 Suddenly going to new, free ground inside protective fortification for addressing media (5,10) PRESS CONFERENCE {PRESto}{SCO{N+FREE}*NCE} 

19 Oxygen is trapped in sphere, making another form of oxygen (7) OZONISE {O}{ZON{IS}E}

20 Essay about one block and three related works (7) TRILOGY {TR{1}{LOG}Y}

21 Sham fellow, not small like royal (6) FAKING {F}{As}{KING}

22 Dumps English visitors leaving university (6) EGESTS {E}{GuESTS}

DOWN

1   Part of a jewellery, kind of rare pod (7) EARDROP*

2   Spooner's candy wire work, something to look at in drawing room (6-5,4) COFFEE-TABLE BOOK {toffee cable  to coffee table}{BOOK} I don't know if this kind of clue construction is kosher?

3   Famous Professor nailed English media first, for one the biggest economic collapses in history (5,10) GREAT DEPRESSION {GREAT}{D{E}{PRESS}{1}ON} What's the role of 'first, for'?

5   Do bring the ware and start to actively contrive sidings for rain proofing (15) WEATHERBOARDING {DO+BRING+THE+WARE+Ac...y}*

6   Endless disdain for failing to start a new America from the same generation (15) CONTEMPORANEOUS {CONTEMPt}{pER}{A}{NEO}{US}

7   Ram and Sita consumed drinks of the Gods (7) AMRITAS*

8   Power to leader of Haiti by Caribbean witchcraft and American dread (6) PHOBIA {P}{Ha..i}{OBI}{A}

9   Casualwear model managed his runs on time (1-5) T-SHIRT {T}{HIS*}{R}{T}

14 Slip talks, in impertinent manner (4,3) LIPS OFF {SLIP}* [RA]

15 Large horn without tip for pirate (6) LOOTER {L}{hOOTER}

16 Barren, cold deserts influence outcome in the end (6) EFFETE {EFFEcT}{o...mE} 

17 Attached positively to coloured garments (3-4) TIE-DYES {TIED}{DYES}

Reference List

Good = G, Runs = R, Quietly = SH, New = N, Fellow = F, Small = S, English = E, Power = P, American = A, Model = T, Time = T, Large = L, Cold = C