Crossword for Wed, 28/Aug/2019

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Across
1: Adds money owed to the government in hearing (5)

4: Narrowly beat or oust one, oddly (4,3)

8: Level called for salary increase (5)

9: Giving up silly run, Reds tack on a couple of errors (9)

11: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

12: Venomous enemy lurks in Caspians (3)

14: Leave sorcerer to bible-basher (9)

16: Infamous Ms. Spelling: 'Nothing's within reason!' (9)

19: Clean oneself, but in reverse (3)

20: Menzies-Carr alliance keeps eye on silly timers (3-3,7)

22: Great picture of aged seaman. (3, 6)

23: Take in to feed silver winner (5)

24: Fish found in the mountains (7)

25: Saw palm down (5)

Down
1: Damn turncoat left country (9)

2: Actor works on two dialects (5,8)

3: Navigate by terse directions (5)

4: Savings division of e-banking gets enormous returns (4,3)

5: Tar mess contaminated rivers (7)

6: Waste pores vent exhausted resources (9)

7: Its strange to go back to a novice for a wall decoration (5)

10: Repeated note to help player? (6-7)

13: Page keeps lighting fires in church building (9)

15: Consigned elegant, short, new dresses in red (9)

17: Hang around and look at that old Roman road (6)

18: Fathers admitting a couple of atrocious spoofs (7)

20: Strap, though short, has hanger's heart (5)

21: Its difficult to include the overhead in the cache (5)





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