Crossword for Sun, 24/Oct/2021

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Across
1: Returning, some felt it necessary to provide grounds for legal claims (7)

5: Follow in broken suede shoes (5)

8: Old puzzle - it sounds delightful (9)

9: Master strokes and coos in your ear (5)

10: Waves like a toff (5)

11: In love with copper? Gone to give the needle? (9)

13: Whip up perfume (7)

14: Threefold test (5)

15: Keep back a missing ingredient for gunpowder (5)

16: Little bitty lines on a letter from Athens (7)

18: Flooded out and united (9)

19: Real estate brochure (5)

22: War ultimately helps attacks (5)

23: Man arrives at a low scrubland (9)

24: Messages transmitted about a mile (1-4)

25: Oblique demand for a new church (7)
Down
1: We turned up with endless Irish pitchers (5)

2: Puff from lips into hat (5)

3: Diet, sir! Clergy upset with fat constituents (13)

4: Issue of number one detergent brand being withdrawn (7)

5: Eeyore's nasty, and an ugly thing (7)

6: Cautioned about teaching (9)

7: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

9: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

12: Weight thrown around by tragic men (9)

13: At home, the rust Ive cleaned up was very invasive (9)

16: Visual quirk set in stone. (7)

17: State goddess gets in first (7)

20: In favour of an outer garment for protection (5)

21: Scrabble piece having D and a diacritical mark (5)




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