The Guardian Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 23rd August 2022

There are 14 across clues and 10 down clues for the The Guardian Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 23rd August 2022. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 8:	I usurp, so false as a Pretender
AAcross 9:	Sailor's chant you cut short — very funny	YOHOHO
AAcross 10:	Turn aside and plunge to the right
AAcross 11:	Straighten out the seaweed?
AAcross 12:	Gone in the end, slug with eyes on stalks
AAcross 13:	Not very masculine offshoot, strangely rhymes with 'boot'
AAcross 15:	A quiet Greek and you turning very pale
AAcross 16:	Sticker back on a container
AAcross 18:	His ’n’ hers formal wear? No, just his
AAcross 19:	Fine fabric that looks best green
AAcross 20:	One helping the cast dance and become exhausted, losing some energy
AAcross 22:	Engineers wooden fret
AAcross 23:	Rise and call out an email command
AAcross 24:	Republican in training not yet a lawyer
DDown 1:	Astonish someone who has forgotten it is now April?	SPRINGASURPRISE
DDown 2:	Novel in eg German urges me to translate	GREENGAGESUMMER
DDown 3:	Such an MND performance would be fundamentally defective
DDown 4:	PM remains, about to resign	ASQUITH
DDown 5:	Endlessly played up in small island
DDown 6:	Items Spanish composer has to leave — the centre cannot hold: why not?	THINGSFALLAPART
DDown 7:	What's that Henry and Eleanor film? Write hint online to get sorted	THELIONINWINTER
DDown 14:	At first, organising lunch etcetera is problematic: there's a roll for us
DDown 17:	Di not Jo's written in diary every day
DDown 21:	Holding front of dress beside bustle