Crossword for Wed, 22/Feb/2023

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Across
1: National official is here, carrying identification, after challenge overwhelms local center (4-9)

8: Bring someone to Court Street meeting (5)

9: Had to be infatuated (9)

11: Novel deviance in the movie? (5,2,6)

13: . . . before the last apprentice is put in the ground (5)

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

15: Surrounded, small insect crawled into cover (7)

19: Create an impression on an envelope? (5)

20: Stop fooling around with her at tea break (4,1,8)

22: Chinese are able to sound extremely subtle (9)

23: 19-across, perhaps, bites indeed (5)

25: Disbelieving customer found in fetid cell in turmoil. (7,6)
Down
1: Cast ballots, with five to back Edward (5)

2: Call initially communicates real yearning (3)

3: Agent returned carrying yen in a container (7)

4: Onetime cooking utensils finally leave wide area (7)

5: Detains stranger as a substitute (7)

6: Solitary one finally putting me back in service (7)

7: It's initially recording automobiles speed, leading to charge (5,4)

10: Group of athletes with club entering quiet sauna (5,4)

12: Android's gold love-apple close to Krypton (9)

13: Senseless and sick to pass up one calorie (9)

16: Satire will become popular (4-3)

17: Narcs study crackhead's ultimate road to nowhere (4,3)

18: Certainly, Mr. Gore welcoming Republican is bizarre (7)

19: Dirt caught in footwear (7)

21: True side (5)

24: Anger that is constraining response (3)




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