Crossword for Tue, 16/Feb/2021

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Across
2: Shredded chad, he decrees, is one ingredient (7,6)

7: Neil lost a letter and ended up with nothing (3)

8: Weapons to attack BS, involving way with words (11)

11: English jet fighter made an assessment and left the country (9)

12: Junker left Alaskan city heading north (5)

13: Language making a comeback in modern Italy (5)

14: Fashionable fragrance, fundamentally (2,7)

16: Stateside bananas: most like a rock (9)

18: Express joy in slaughter (5)

20: Gershwin comes back on train with tortured spirit (5)

21: Outline a principal overhaul (4,5)

23: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

24: It comes to a point everyone heard (3)

25: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)
Down
1: Polite fellow, but a slippery character (7)

2: Then, one crisis ends after call is for healthy exercises (13)

3: Coal remaining at the end of a month (5)

4: Redesigned color name tag (5)

5: Sci-fi pioneer composes Mercury Sources (1.1.,5)

6: English scenes reproduced for 'Nature' (7)

9: Remodeled studio with a touch of erotica on the exterior (7)

10: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

15: Take out former pamphlet? (7)

16: Curiously mad sort of celebrity (7)

17: Deceived, died, dodged (7)

19: Unsavoury gaol hid a Spanish nobleman. (7)

21: Guard enthralled by desperately urgent sad song (5)

22: Pitcher, lunatic, not married (5)




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