Crossword for Tue, 18/Apr/2023

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Across
1: Diverting a dupe with wrong input (7)

4: Spout off, immersed in Homer, to quick-tempered person (7)

7: Principal on top of leafy tree (5)

9: Country encircling one's country (9)

11: Identifies men as displaced - best not to be one at 34's (5)

13: Crank up front half of outhouse in Alabama, for example (4-5)

14: Taint corrupted giant (5)

15: Fell limply and quietly in a squalid area extremely exhausted (7)

17: Actors were first to have moved on board (7)

18: A little sister I called Heather (5)

19: Coach bans macho fooling around (6,3)

21: Girl leaving in the morning from America (5)

22: Certain European in age-worn convertible (9)

23: Part of stair is erect (5)

24: Sailor to criticise abundant 19-across source (7)

25: Exclusive place is developed (7)
Down
1: Long train traveling to city near Washington (9)

2: Equips for attacks (4)

3: Pound Falcon end into football field (5)

4: How to finance 18-down? (5,4)

5: Ships use up aid at sea; remain in a grave situation (4,2,7)

6: Come to Korea - Chinese part (5)

8: Check out tailless fish swallowing speck of dust with hand-held device (6,7)

10: Relative takes funny pose on glass bridge? (9)

12: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

15: Wielding stolen ice pick (9)

16: Man arrives at a low scrubland (9)

19: Has great success taking in an unspecified number of intimates (5)

20: Rings for the groups (5)

23: Fish spawn upstream in little orifices (3)




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