Crossword for Fri, 19/Feb/2021

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Across
1: Deliver a sweetener to mix with your date? (5,4,4)

8: Sluggish trainer takes part (5)

10: Private cabin, say, with space (9)

11: Those who study bugs' motion got less confused (13)

13: Lauds professor's initial salary increases (7)

15: Whistles for tarts carrying pitcher (5)

17: Irene's new name (5)

18: Place new requisition about the brotherhood (7)

19: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

21: Golf club about to make undergarment (9)

23: Casts off shacks (5)

24: Swings needing repair by unknown stock gauge (4,4,5)

Down
2: Spend too much time on the track where powerlines are frequently found. (4-5)

3: Arenas almost filling with the hooter (5)

4: Butcher shop's opening to sounds of hilarity (9)

5: Number One in facetiousness (3)

6: Anchors in peat bogs (5)

7: Ministers ordain art evil? I doctor a reversal (13)

8: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

9: Aroused with short tutu, mesmeric midsection, and perfume (9)

12: ESP school worried ancient dramatist (9)

14: This behaviour causes sin! (9)

16: Deep dirge played for one of unimpeachable heritage (9)

19: Squirrel with a fuzzy caterpillar, say? (5)

20: Pick a wrong angle (5)

22: Sounds like a bright child (3).





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