Crossword for Sun, 17/Dec/2023

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Across
1: Sounds like everything: a bore (3)

3: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

8: Ellen, golf wife, creates a sense of joint interest (6,7)

10: Perishable candy (7)

11: Weird canal echo (5)

12: Barque, for one, is a trio-tutor (5-6)

14: Hear Native American appeal (3)

15: Standard style of music rejected (3)

17: Crazy to clean sons in awful mess (11)

20: One intolerant of extensive overtime (5)

21: I'd party wildly after hitting this? (3,4)

23: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

24: Ruby ran off to marry after a couple of events came to light again (11)

25: Former name for joint audition (3)
Down
1: Acid destroyed brace (5)

2: Further up inside here, it folds back (7)

3: Head is about to allow artists colour range (7)

4: Run away with Cockney stride (5)

5: Eccentric bad footballer (3-6)

6: Trips around Central Europe for arms parts (6)

7: This food won't give you a heavy feeling (5,4)

9: Slip in terror (5)

12: Recorder describes Mr. Quayle: a little crazy person, quick on his feet (3-6)

13: Family member suppresses a temptation to go head-to-foot naked (2,7)

16: Hop back inside before Bo undresses (7)

17: Dark, scary thing (5)

18: Up in grassy area around Kentucky (7)

19: Yellow fowl (7)

21: Accommodate bear (3,2)

22: Puff from lips into hat (5)




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