Crossword for Sun, 23/Feb/2020

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

7: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

9: Unappealing environment for a snooze (3)

10: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

11: Aunt Peg really messed up the cheap seats (6,7)

12: Rambling tales are out of date (5)

13: Deciphered code in a sea-nymph (7)

16: Curled back at last course (7)

17: Common thread uniting New York and half of London (5)

18: Furious persons cry for the lure of the wilderness (4,2,3,4)

22: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

23: No one told sister (3)

24: Club with space for some money (3)

25: Crush rage created by the additional levy (9)

Down
1: Approach hoist (3,2)

2: Odds dropping at each word, the happy rhea Ezra bred becomes unpredictable (9)

3: Unwelcome visitors oddly unstirred (9)

4: Some unpretentious language! (5)

5: Bankrupt being disrespectful about victory sign (9)

6: Record true speed (5)

7: Poor year after Eden lost (5)

8: Stranger, in turn, had an accident (3-3-3)

12: Irresponsible friends show up merry (9)

13: State fair without a tree (6,3)

14: Rev. Spooner says 'The person massaging Reagan is illiterate' (3-6)

15: Flirting could end with marriage (9)

18: Talk about a set of stores (5)

19: More than one garden veggie is spilling the beans, you say? (5)

20: Your leg? (5)

21: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)





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