Crossword for Mon, 5/Jun/2023

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Across
1: Tweak with wrong end of a pin (3)

3: Conducted fight in tent, it's clear (11)

8: Opening building in church grounds in Sulawesi (7)

10: Al, Ron's a poor loser (4-3)

12: Murder novel grips a listener (7)

13: Effective narration (7)

14: Runner or dramatist in play (13)

16: Stop fooling around with her at tea break (4,1,8)

19: Call into question where I am pinkish? (7)

20: Grant again drew one crookedly (7)

22: Simplest to find English in kinky siesta (7)

23: True gem discovered within landscape feature (3-4)

24: 15-acrosss toilet pot? Rubbish! (5,6)

25: Its a firm, small lettuce (3)
Down
1: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

2: Pivotal round total ultimately in par (5)

4: Like powerful uncle in Indian state? (5)

5: Streetcar crashed into litterbug, perhaps? (9)

6: Press against a container of Mexican beer and vodka (7)

7: Closer to morning, sound of storyteller follows organ (7)

9: Romantic poet is close to Reagan (5)

11: ...near fishing boats stocked with cold bait (5,8)

15: Style of western pasta (9)

16: Sort of collection to compose print (7)

17: Dishonesty perpetrated by crooked raven in Kentucky (7)

18: Perpendicular to 25-across? (5)

20: True side (5)

21: Physicist with Republican group in Washington (5)




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