Crossword for Fri, 3/Dec/2021

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Across
1: Mostly yearning for headache remedy (7)

5: Provisions made by the artist to get into shape for the course (7)

8: See, you are a cad. (3)

9: Cost very little when companion partied wildly outside (4,5)

11: In great trouble he doesnt appear appreciative (7)

12: A teetotaller in an imitation coat wielding a pick-axe (7)

13: Bizarre night entity (5)

15: Color orange upset poet something terrible (5,4)

16: Woman losing head after another fall (9)

17: Partially affect a steak's flavor (5)

18: Insignificant trial includes six from old Rome (7)

19: Dionne's place in England (7)

20: Crooked Nile ran on, just not in a straight line (9)

22: Freshen the atmosphere (3)

23: Determined attack on a moribund collection (4,3)

24: Come before chief of police, and back off (7)

Down
2: Travel - pioneering art form (13)

3: Bloody bored inside (3)

4: Tender translator of runes (5)

5: Again put together pieces from rare comb in exhibit (9)

6: Curing bad meat in English river (9)

7: Rap wave using scab? (6-7)

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

10: Paraphrasing 'A Certain Sport': 'Wait till next year!' (13)

14: Consents to accepting decline in rates of change (9)

15: Believer in esoteric powers is joining quasi-religious group in October (9)

19: Youngster giving wounded first aid (5)

21: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)





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