Crossword for Fri, 5/Nov/2021

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Across
1: Ceases running features about Republican in serious trouble (4,7)

6: Control escape (3)

8: Lets stand on a cowboy hat (7)

9: Come up to breathe the skin? (7)

10: Defusing timer incorrectly can lead to this! (13)

13: Changed musician not so offensively pious (13)

15: Gradually reduce European Community requisitions for playback devices (4,9)

20: He explored star (7,6)

21: Hotel of more than average height in capital (7)

22: One partner took it to reproduce (7)

24: Draw the knot (3)

25: Exchange concealed proprietary knowledge (5,6)

Down
1: I deem turds a regrettable necessity (11)

2: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

3: Hearing sis nose around (7)

4: Foreign car, in neutral, crashed (7)

5: Keep rolling and swelling, Doc! (7)

6: Grill when involved in corruption (5)

7: Odds of niece being born (3)

9: Check about a form of power (5)

11: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

12: Lepers treated by North Dakota specialist? Brilliant! (11)

14: Start reorganizing notes (5)

16: Usher again in the audience for evidence of payment (7)

17: Links to some 7-down (5)

18: A grape drink for Edwin emptied inside (3,4)

19: Hard to define evil, use 'gone astray' (7)

20: German poet in anger tying up Kay (5)

21: Worthless even when recycled (3)

23: Song is a gas (3)





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