Crossword for Fri, 25/Sep/2020

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Across
1: Unlikely to cheat

4: Writes out of the will

7: Byte fraction

8: Collection of beliefs about life

10: Big lug

11: Eating alcove

12: Finch

14: Chauffeurs, for example

15: Trades in

17: King and queen

19: Artless simplicity

20: Exploited, slangily

22: Stumbling

23: '___ Town Too' (1981 hit for James Taylor and J.D. Souther)

24: Despises

25: Conquered
Down
1: Dresses

2: Writes up

3: Unsophisticated

4: Scoffed at

5: Wrongdoer's bane

6: Tom and Sid, to Twain

7: Flowering shrub of the four-o'clock family

9: Compactness

13: Assuage

15: Small number

16: Homo sapiens, for example

17: Quits before the king is captured

18: Warbled

21: Drying-out place, familiarly




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