Crossword for Fri, 5/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Ruddy rare steak, say? (7)

5: Coral Sea, perhaps, without a fish (7)

9: Smithys workplace agreement not originally despicable, not totally! (5)

10: Hero to remember sheathing blade (5)

11: Dine out and stop being vague (13)

13: Mathematician's analysis of former Vice President's movements? (9)

14: Calls for lemon and mustard, losing zero weight (5)

16: One who lives under bridges and eats billy goats and fish (5)

18: Bad egg contained sulphur and tin, a real torture! (9)

21: 'Ransom'? Lame. Run 'Rocky I', 'II', 'III', etc. (5,8)

22: Group of eight initially outwits coup to enter Tripoli (5)

23: Flower power honey-bees provide (5)

24: Apprentice relinquishes heart to temptress (7)

25: Late Greek god betraying no emotion (7)

Down
1: Offering resistance, cattle run wild (9)

2: Seduce husband-to-be in parlor (7, 4)

3: Drive an unusual visitor (7)

4: Unaffected by a little liquor, he nursed the child. (4, 3)

5: Murder novel grips a listener (7)

6: Pieces of improperly lit tachometer returned with malice (7)

7: God! Get real! There's no point getting upset (3)

8: English novelist is in future a delight (5)

12: A properly run lottery might be a complete success (1,5,5)

15: Dons swarm all around fencer (9)

17: Maniac is loose in a cult (7)

18: More candid and duller (7)

19: Deviated before getting cast out (7)

20: Dancer Duncan is a road protestor (7)

21: Called oriental area (5)

22: Cull out from top ten (3)





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