Crossword for Wed, 4/May/2022

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Across
1: Poles in trouble with character from Greece (7)

5: Stabs at centre-left defences (7)

8: Canadian water ordered for regal tea-break (5,4,4)

9: Hurting with pains? Not so! Far out! (7)

10: Eat late, taking in a floozie's new business (5-2)

12: In confusion of duel, take first exit to escape. (5)

14: Relaxed back at vicarage with a NZ channel (6,3)

16: Shortened lingerie test sexual attraction (9)

17: A month to live, perhaps (5)

18: One eating little head of lettuce held by cook in hot water (7)

20: Mimic has to leave the ground (4,3)

22: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

24: Observed, like hot tea? (7)

25: How Danson signs letters inside out? (7)
Down
1: Goes through ere sixpence circulates (11)

2: John Hancock in great US maneuvers (9)

3: Old physician in sheltered church (5)

4: Steno erratically scribbles (5)

5: The time before the first woman (3)

6: Concrete area covered by company's emergency equipment (4,5)

7: Expose to heat in opening of red-hot kiln (5)

10: Sigh audibly about fool giving lip (5)

11: Fancied poem composed in comfort (5,2,4)

13: Baffling wild giant mice (9)

14: Old Mongoloid to farewell religious leader (5)

15: Firework for Kennedy ends right in a hollow part (9)

19: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

20: This identifies the literary epic at the outset! (5)

21: Jack's described part of a church (5)

23: Clear initial rubbish in drain (3)




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