Crossword for Fri, 15/Sep/2023

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Across
2: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

8: Congressman Grant's adversary gobbles steak bone, getting stuffed (7)

10: Intrinsically, lilac queries development of wood varnish (7)

11: Love to influence the polar type. (9)

13: Thumb Drum? (3)

15: Get the wrong idea, damn it, distressed about breaks (13)

16: Brando rinsing out identification tools (8,5)

20: Draw the knot (3)

21: Caught up in son's greed unfortunately (9)

22: Struck with leading edge of shortstop's glove (7)

23: Raise vale. Tee off. (7)

25: Free for all by lack of padlocked freight compartments (2,5,6)
Down
1: Fashion term heartless: Feeling up Blossom (6-2-3)

2: Drunk rises, holding tubular headgear (3,4)

3: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

4: The outbursts one hears are hers (7)

5: Support sign for subordinates (11)

6: Following unsullied rise, Edward broke out (7)

7: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

9: Host seems clever, off and on (5)

12: Support a deranged original (11)

14: One Miss Horn takes a tumble with guys having outlaw spirits (11)

16: Flaw exposed in regrettable mishap (7)

17: Wagging tails or butts (3-4)

18: Lasso a large animal, making first off for north (5)

19: Mild ado about a card game (3,4)

22: Sounds like a bright child (3).

24: Wander around inside territory (3)




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