Crossword for Sun, 18/Apr/2021

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Across
1: Kind of triangle

4: Pun reaction, perhaps

7: Artists' buys

10: May celebrant

11: Baroque

12: Lies

14: Spin

15: Like most divans

16: Like the words of a man of few words

17: WMDs, slangily

19: Y chromosome carriers

20: Deficiency (and an alternate title for this puzzle)

21: Attention getter

23: Microcomputer's stronger kin

24: Smoothed the soil

25: After-dinner drink
Down
1: As an alternative

2: Working

3: Big books

4: Type of tank

5: Volt รท ampere result

6: Formidable opponents

8: Lingerie shown during a preview?

9: Excessively distressed

12: Expostulatory

13: Prohibition-era fixtures

16: Tree that repels insects

18: Tongue-tie

22: Jabber

23: Blob of used gum




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