Crossword for Sat, 16/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Fool to join recital (3)

3: Call on Geller or a seductively beautiful woman (5)

5: Provoke Church of Scotland's absent leader (3)

6: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

8: Town's rail transport, not express? (9)

10: Sailor offers thanks to the British resistance (3)

11: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

12: Birds in white trousers (5)

13: Sound of river crossing (3)

Down
1: Poles suffer internally - they're hard (5)

2: Mimic has to leave the ground (4,3)

3: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)

4: Equips for attacks (4)

7: Fashionable journalist coming back after battle (1,2,4)

9: There is no commoner old coin (5)

10: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)





Solution (Reversed)
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R
U
O
H
T
I
N
N
A
A
A
H
C
A
E
R
K
R
I
L
D
E
L
N
I
A
R
T
W
O
L
S
O
M
I
F
B
R
O
M
T
F
A
R
L
D
E
I
E
X
E
S
K
C
U
D