Crossword for Tue, 16/Jan/2018

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Across
1: Contemptible information (7)

5: Trail after an uprising beginning to form (7)

9: About fifty-one complaints - they're thought to be true (7)

10: Freeze one mug filled with tea, essentially (3,2)

11: The man with lack of skill shows cruelty (13)

13: Foreign military base to spout off (7)

15: Artists workshop E. Lear bowled over with it (7)

17: For slimmers: food almost tasteless, initially, and costing nothing? (3-4)

18: Distinct identity based in circumstance (7)

19: Free sex, lips in beer; it's beyond words (13)

21: Discover treasure hiding in plain sight (5)

22: Come up for air with expert under ocean waves (7)

24: Treason destroyed Washington insider (7)

25: Chained up the prickly beast (7)
Down
2: Short bloke discontinued hike (3)

3: Miserable poor agree with 'La Boheme' spectator (9)

4: Pronounced ability to smell negative votes (3)

5: I see marks on jumbled party favors (11)

6: Casts off shacks (5)

7: Unnecessary oath from ex-president I've allowed in (9)

8: Valuable discovery certain in luxury travel (8,5)

9: Sadly, tribe sends off good pals (4,2,7)

12: Carelessly let teeth rot completely (2,3,6)

14: To restrain a small child that is not up. (2, 3, 4)

16: Rug behind structure in Scottish city (9)

20: Fold suit and undershirt (5)

22: Without it, set call for recompense (3)

23: Help found in Adelaide. (3)




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