Crossword for Sun, 10/Nov/2019

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Across
1: Seek trail (2,5)

5: Boxer Max returned, holding heroin, for treatment (5)

8: Cuts back small curls (7)

10: Saves and secures stranger (7)

11: Mr Stewart on the staff (3)

12: Thus might florin study a silly timekeeper (3-3,5)

13: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

16: A date in February: good time for a massacre? (10,3)

18: Steer TS into alternative routes (4,7)

21: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

22: Very young cat I lost in an ancient city (7)

23: Drink produced as grain ferments (7)

24: Give in and offer up (5)

25: Legendary rich guy gets called, then folds (7)
Down
1: Certain mollusk back in Hokkaido ports again (9)

2: Shorten a spine with boron injection (7)

3: Athletic practice for period of examination (4,5)

4: Rise as in throw, perhaps, showing fitness to fly (13)

5: Repair stitching that flares Ewok cloaks (5)

6: Usual resort for dads sister after lunch finished (5)

7: Utter poppycock! He was a Dutch painter (5)

9: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

14: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

15: Crushed bones, say, as source of sauce (4,5)

17: Throws out the pressman returning to play sport (7)

18: 15-across Something good that blinds copper (5,7)

19: Top communicator qualified to produce telegram (5)

20: Course left out of Texas city's comeback (5)




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