Crossword for Thu, 18/Jan/2018

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Across
1: Stay away from

4: Half a tick

7: You'll probably find one at a five-star hotel

9: Frightened

11: Cheers

12: Long-tailed songbird

13: Beset with attackers

15: Principal residences

16: One making a bundle on the farm?

17: See

19: Really dumb

20: Optical range

21: Most spick-and-span

22: Lends a hand

24: Tops for women

25: 1982 Hoffman movie
Down
1: Bounce up and down

2: Cowardly, in slang

3: Captures via VCR

4: Dairy sound

5: SWAT team specialists

6: Makes lovable

8: Insincere ladies' men

10: Change

11: Garden tool

14: Operatic texts

16: Place for a rubber duck

18: Siamese or Persian

20: Represent onstage

23: Match, in poker




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