Crossword for Wed, 21/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Rejecting crew's work on board, you rest at the stern (8,3)

6: Behind and down and out (3)

9: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

11: Officer scratches passageway backing out (7)

12: Interrupted by yells of pain, Dr. Edward napped (7)

14: Heads appearing strange in distorting lens (7)

15: English scenes reproduced for 'Nature' (7)

16: Hang South American author at crack of dawn (7)

19: On the way back, I had to keep calm and concentrate (7)

21: Lionel train originally given to Ron Howard on 'Happy Days' (7)

22: Wild sire ran from Nevada mountain range (7)

23: Employ heart-broken Spartans where disaster came to pass. (11)

24: How to eat the heart of marsupial (3)

25: Mere chance of depression interrupting peace (11)
Down
2: Went to bed embarrassed about backward custom (7)

3: Ridicules unnecessary bobtail (7)

4: Late, reflective Freud revolting, in part (7)

5: Cat linked stories to the underworld (8-5)

6: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

7: Fine legs confused emotions (5,8)

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

10: A cold fish embraces that woman's mortal weaknesses (8,5)

13: Sounds like a bright child (3).

17: Inflexible yet adjusted (3)

18: Doctor East, half American, is a wishful thinker (7)

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

20: Salieri breaks up Middle Easterner (7)

23: Heavy metal group X (4)




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