Crossword for Wed, 25/Dec/2019

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Across
2: It's news broadcast for a seer (7)

5: Enter names - register only lists beginners (5)

6: Trap with hands? (3)

8: In the act an organ is brought forth (9)

10: Small piece of fish (3)

11: Away sick and lifeless (5)

13: Knight-errant or young man in distress (7)

Down
1: Corrected and finished after mid-December (7)

2: Escalating naked conflict (3)

3: If forced, see idle TV broadcast (9)

4: Composer employed in hotel garage (5)

7: Heads appearing strange in distorting lens (7)

9: Defame how I live in 16-across local (5)

12: In no state to contain a pregnant virgin? (3)





Solution (Reversed)
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