Crossword for Mon, 31/May/2021

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Across
2: Shifting financial fortunes cause industry revolution (8,5)

8: To leaf I turn, becoming leafy (7)

10: Tears as leading character in romance dies (5)

11: Greenest state with the least elevation (9)

12: Scandinavian boatmen or sea-faring characters (5)

13: First to utterly defeat fish. (5)

14: Composer found in a red hot oven? (9)

15: Chicago hoodlums capturing 1,000 squirrels (9)

19: I sort swimming trunks (5)

21: Upset Texas baseball player after the first (5)

22: Opening bet nearly winning at rummy? (9)

23: Squeeze in a pash (5)

24: Hold spellbound in the tenth rally (7)

25: Something good made by dwarf barber, perhaps! (6,7)

Down
1: Ancient history part is excessively trimmed (7)

3: 'Betrayal' is a theatrical success (7)

4: That woman has articles put in case (7)

5: Greek city - in the Adriatic or in Thessaly (7)

6: Varies order in command? That's debatable (13)

7: Oriental festival on the first of November (7)

8: Taking ones cue from subsequent courtship (9,4)

9: Acid destroyed brace (5)

15: Fashion designer going round cold part of church (7)

16: Officer scratches passageway backing out (7)

17: Finest tree house exhibits gist of problem (7)

18: Sense of location, we hear (5)

19: Fit in cave after tea (7)

20: Thankless person from Tangier (7)





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