Crossword for Fri, 21/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Not blunt instrument - it has point on front (5)

4: Spider, e.g., caught a foremost kite's sail (9)

7: Mister T ignored Scrooge (5)

8: The song of Homer's charmer (7)

11: A number going to church for fish (5)

12: Fur from hormone treatment I took - it's mortifying (4,5)

13: Pauses awkwardly after error but steadies nerves (5,2)

14: 'Wrong and sick,' I quote... almost (7)

16: Determined listener finds refuge. (7)

17: Bad cons make a break and run away (7)

19: Extremely tense many times about a private conversation (4-1-4)

21: Show fear when beast appears on popular TV series (5)

22: No saint takes strong drink as a remedy (7)

23: Horrid, filthy lucre (5)

24: Washy idea about refuges (9)

25: Try abbreviation for South America, we hear (5)
Down
1: Feminine articles put in case (7)

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

3: Reverend Spooner's congregants join together in fast (9)

4: Now Elton heard California's big one (3)

5: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

6: No French islands for the other Dr. Crane (5)

9: Charles talked about pictures of sea creatures (6,2,5)

10: Ensemble originally formed with ocarina, cello, theremin, euphonium, and tabla (5)

12: Risk of pole womans end being upset after handy beer (11)

15: Goner osculates wildly (4,5)

16: Englishman opening a can to dine at home (3,2)

18: Break down door with your visitor to Oz (7)

20: Westbound section of that road is a major artery (5)

23: Mediterranean leaves unfashionable coins? (3)




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