Crossword for Sun, 31/Oct/2021

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Across
1: Greek characters suggest dawn (3)

3: Person with fixed notions is pretty sore, upset about the introduction of Ebonics (11)

9: Exciting object getting rent by stream (9)

10: Cloth was dug up! (5)

11: Lassie from Sirius? (3,4)

12: They secure money for the government, so we hear (5)

13: Mild guess: I die reassembling a nasty weapon (6,7)

14: Guess what the benighted marksman did? (4,2,3,4)

17: Newsman Bradley accepts men, correct? (5)

18: Opposition leader has share in speech (7)

21: Neil Armstrong, first to return from another world? (5)

23: Does Rod go to pieces with kind but impractical reformers? (2-7)

24: The star of 'Ellen' has at folks with substandard morals (11)

25: Infection leads from partly uncooked steak (3)
Down
1: Observed no Knight (5)

2: Quiet floor decoration is a sign of indifference (5)

3: Inspects old radical for a moment (5, 6)

4: Witty remark, for example, about constant batterer (7)

5: Immerse in massive sound (7)

6: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)

7: Give a bad review to Pain in style (7)

8: Meat and drink kept as refreshment? (4,5)

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

13: Accent on three feet as a place of rest? (9)

14: Carol goes round Royal Botanic Gardens, taking an oblique course (7)

15: Tavern drink for the auditor, one with access to confidential information (7)

16: Half of them should have had an idea (7)

19: Frost over mid-January during epic exploit (3,2)

20: Bouquets of flowers, freshly opened (5)

22: No one told sister (3)




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