Crossword for Wed, 18/Dec/2019

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Across
1: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

3: Pretty girl takes part in outdoor cooking? No just toys (6, 5).

8: Against space race effect (5)

9: Left out cheese for parasites (7)

11: Remember, mine cries in distress (9)

13: Ripped off a group of hard-up Edwardians (5)

14: Fool gets share of standards in 25-down (13)

16: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

18: Butts in front of people, breaking drinks (5)

19: Every other starlit fish starting search for little percussion instruments (9)

22: Cuts taxes (7)

23: After Burton, the wild part of a person turns meek (5)

24: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

25: Raw material for Swedish coins (3)

Down
1: Want verse included in poetry translation (7)

2: Dock up first boat for cleaning. (5)

3: Behind and down and out (3)

4: Small courses, no fine trimmings. (5)

5: Hoarded tiny bits of dryness (11)

6: Non-discounted rate for newly split grain (4,5)

7: Actor's second, and putting on a mad snit (5-2)

10: Original marks in bad degree came to light (7)

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

14: Cool customers liable to be tossed? (9)

15: Sheds last one carelessly (4-3)

16: New England river flowing with less constraint (7)

17: What's left of reckless desire to get closer to you (7)

20: Hand out Kleenex, wiping away a bit of tears (5)

21: Dance in a state of oblivion (5)

23: Child is to depart, finally (3)





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