Crossword for Sun, 28/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Awful bed lace causes fiasco (7)

6: Mere owl inhabits large yard (5)

9: Little weight spoils head honcho in sophisticated secondary institute (7,6)

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

11: Rushes for middle of glossed lip (5)

12: Princesses's attendant, yawning, laid it out (4-2-7)

16: Foresees a three iron, just as Cassandra did. (7, 6)

18: Writer deserts pea-green match (5)

20: Happy faces disturb economist (9)

23: He explored star (7,6)

24: True-blue pub changes at heart (5)

25: Set aside a conservation area (7)
Down
1: Appreciate it: a large data format (7)

2: Black gets closing party (5)

3: Bell tower providing temporary accommodation by a river (9)

4: Weird eastern lake (5)

5: St. Michael transforms metal transformer (9)

6: Reel around in circles (5)

7: Did glow confuse crazed cur? (4, 3)

8: Complains to Sammy re cast (7)

13: There's very little we back completely in status symbol (9)

14: Impugn guest in R.I. for clandestine affairs (9)

15: Dog leaps in puddles (7)

16: Graphically describe harbour light (7)

17: Heart of delicatessen, certainly, is meat (7)

19: Surpass former church leader, at first (5)

21: Feed all but the first stranger (5)

22: Tarka beheads scoundrel (5)




Solution (Reversed)
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