Crossword for Thu, 5/Jan/2023

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Across
1: Again send out note describing Susie misbehaving (7)

5: We blame knitter for small woolly jumper (3-4)

8: Hesitate to leave when harboring evil (9)

9: Many Christmas trees ultimately left in the best place? (5)

10: Audible attempt to get clique cut in three (7)

11: Talked about an urban area in the NW (7)

13: Censored: soft behind, lip in bed (7)

14: Neither partner finds way out of country (3)

15: Five kills one. (3)

17: He got ripped exhibiting selfish behavior (3,4)

18: Ways of approaching a goddess without middlemen? (7)

19: This erratic 23-down twisted neck (7)

21: Plunges about in State's evidence (5)

23: Gray's line about young animals (9)

24: TV's Ellen, upset after last two bits edited out, broke contract (7)

25: Rumors of corn among grass (7)
Down
1: Derive the component of metal fastener (5)

2: To implicate is innate, swallowing a hundred backing Space Station One (11)

3: Pal teased about crazy snack food (6,7)

4: Accurate journalist demanded payment (7)

5: Thirteenth in a series, ER's about an Aussie racketeer who took repeated slams? (7)

6: 4-down Arias hit high note in some of the lungs (3,3)

7: Flower - say, in Victoria's province - to raise (9)

9: Holder of strange ritual of troll (5,8)

12: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

13: Next to erector is a witness (9)

16: Not all colleges say education is attempted (7)

17: Record Buttrose with acidity in her final judgment (7)

20: Sigh audibly about fool giving lip (5)

22: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)




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