Crossword for Fri, 2/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Catch first fish? Hold fast (5)

3: Ball tops over-ripe bananas (3)

5: Famous gardens said to move one to speak. (3)

7: Proficient in arithmetic, starting with short division (5)

8: Prig had ma conceal midriff (9)

10: Love affair for one like Othello, we hear (5)

11: Aliens set off (3)

12: Taverns quoted cool clique (3)

13: Penniless meal is fantastic (5)

Down
1: Solidified education after California strike (5)

2: More than one grown-up kids' tender hearts god broke? (9)

3: Too old for love - a woman, for example, rejected (7)

4: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

6: Excitedly saw open arms (7)

9: Scrooge in film is erratic (5)

10: At heart, a calico is a fighter (3)





Solution (Reversed)
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R
O
G
N
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L
C
U
V
O
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T
P
E
D
A
W
E
K
R
T
E
E
M
G
A
R
H
P
A
I
D
I
G
E
P
S
T
E
R
U
O
M
A
E
D
N
L
R
E
P
U
S
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N
I