Crossword for Thu, 8/Apr/2021

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Across
2: Support a deranged original (11)

8: Handles bad cents (7)

9: Falstaff's first clever lie (5)

10: Stop cold, then relax (5)

11: Underworld biggie (and chief stoolie) is a rich and powerful person (9)

12: Censured someone who's gentle as a Kennedy (9)

14: Small courses, no fine trimmings. (5)

16: Amazingly idle - why give up? (5)

18: through old player? (9)

20: Inmate Ian playing dead (9)

22: Teaching assistants run into hospital facility for shocker (5)

23: Right to possess an address (5)

24: Midwestern city lost its soul (2,5)

25: Wizards covered in liquor and beer...it might be for charity (7, 4)
Down
1: Rally has promotion I created primarily in a new way (9)

2: Weapon company accommodating listener (7)

3: Minor change in the White House? (6-3-4)

4: He told tales about a love with foresight. (5)

5: Show sedated one giving details (9)

6: Catholic starts to raise awareness going into public defamation (7)

7: Unable to act, I cast 'Rent' (5)

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

13: Vaudeville star to lead opening of Angela's Grandma (3,6)

15: Form of address valued for the auditor taken unawares (9)

17: Eastern oxcart confounds blackmailer (7)

19: Incorrectly decide half of Israel's enthralled by stubborn one (7)

20: Plant in the edges of the first row (5)

21: Discounting all odds, teen assured to succeed (5)




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