Crossword for Sun, 14/May/2023

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Across
1: Large glasses used on ships (9)

4: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

6: Control, coerce, and strengthen (9)

8: Cheer supporting blue automaton (5)

10: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

11: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

13: Separate sort of cameo role (4,5)

14: Goddess is against holding back one Quebecoise (5)

16: Idler, upset, stirred (5)

18: Deranged person ate tongue (9)

20: Martyr fighting segregation (5,6)

21: Frost to cover the cake (3)

22: One who regrets following initial tendencies is increasingly sincere (5)

23: Drink is flowing, by the sound of it, where Magna Carta was signed (9)

24: Interprets, for the audience, the woodwinds (5)

25: Delilah, practically bare, cuts hair! (9)

Down
1: Secret art dashed Tennessees desire (9)

2: Broken home rid of beneficiarys condition (7)

3: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

4: Dry vegetarian, about to like this puzzle, perhaps? (6, 7)

5: An Asian making money carrying a letter from Greece (7)

7: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)

9: Start reducing salt? (3)

12: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

15: Fears ultimately uncentered and pointless (9)

17: Relaxation is guaranteed following island greeting (7)

19: Alien in spa written up for 'a display of greenness'? (7)

20: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)





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