Crossword for Thu, 2/Apr/2020

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Across
1: In all, just a little peak. (3)

3: Bar mail of unadorned capital (5,6)

8: How Nero holds one in control (5)

9: Loses ones extraordinary flexibility (9)

11: Thankless person from Tangier (7)

13: Non-clerical song (3)

14: Believes in harnessing hydrogen for sources of propulsion (7)

16: Stand up funny as partner to a broom? (7)

18: Mrs. Roosevelt East, Trim, Oregon (7)

19: Like a big cat, snaky fish consumes Spanish toddler (7)

20: Later round without an opponent (3)

21: Lassie from Sirius? (3,4)

22: Maintenance with Jones family perhaps (7,2)

23: Running back almost blew grand (5)

24: Pick up line for first man swinging both ways? (5,2,4)

25: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)
Down
1: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

2: Wild ermine encaged years here?! (9)

3: Prohibit an attorney's organization (3)

4: Stan's partner is central to Follies (5)

5: Learning, obsessive student returns to shelf (9)

6: Girl mostly into turning inside out - it's never ending! (11)

7: 'Elfin' featured in 'Complete Enya' (5)

10: Reformed drinker helps a water distributor (9,4)

12: Be prepared with amnesties for truancy (11)

15: Large strumpets turned a trick? (9)

17: A couple of olives in drink for billiards area (4,5)

20: Born and raised, it is whispered, to make money (5)

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

23: Vet theatre opening 8-down (3)




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