Crossword for Sun, 25/Sep/2022

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Across
1: Crave to badly ham it up (7)

5: Regarding method of cell division with German concerned with the ear (7)

8: Continual wind up by the French shortstop (7)

9: Prepares this way, dearies (7)

11: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)

12: Raises chickens (about 8) (9)

15: A carriage returned in pieces (5)

16: Made clear how in directions (5)

17: Record that it was to insult (2,3,4)

18: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

20: Cora acts indecisively (7)

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

24: Dance to old home recording (3 4)

25: Oblique demand for a new church (7)
Down
1: Fling an item of furniture (3,5,5)

2: Uninitiated stoop to finish (3)

3: Five kills one. (3)

4: Will examine congregation's response to priest's termination (9)

5: I, astride colt's mother with Donny's sister (5)

6: Rent dinner suit at drapers? Not Des! (4,5)

7: Cereal vermin seized by superb 16-down (11)

10: Drive away roofing material before farmhouse becomes a target area (8,5)

11: For Proust, life's purpose springs from remembrance of a torn desire (6,5)

13: Wild thing sure is greediest (9)

14: Star Keanu ultimately involved with certain salespeople's backing (9)

19: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

22: Sort of uninitiated cheat (3)

23: Control escape (3)




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