Crossword for Sun, 8/Oct/2023

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Across
1: Non-clerical song (3)

4: Happen to capture position (4,5)

8: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

10: Fiction position (3)

11: My gal talking to Italian at the table? (5,8)

12: Summaries of car option pamphlets (9)

15: Priestess betrays Sen. Kefauver (5)

16: Hangs ten vassals at hearing (5)

17: French king rested after a tumble and swaggered (9)

18: 3-down said Sir, I have these! (5,4,4)

21: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

22: Inept casino confused the issue (4,2,5)

24: Tempory respite about the goal. (9)

25: Walesa still embodies how Nobel Laureates soar? (3)
Down
1: Smoked salmon for the auditor with hair (5)

2: Club with space for some money (3)

3: Staffed without Western religion (5)

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

5: Inauguration of Pennsylvania resident who occupies 1600 Pennsylvania Ave (9)

6: 16-down cousin waves at gorilla (9)

7: Shocked ensemble leader with ascending note during concert (9)

9: Liquidation of one country led by pair of fools (13)

12: Collector is slow mover garnering southern selenium (9)

13: Large strumpets turned a trick? (9)

14: Shortens break, going back to arouse with comedy bit (9)

19: Flower part to lapse badly (5)

20: Biblical refugee, American flower (5)

23: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)




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