Crossword for Fri, 28/Dec/2018

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Across
1: Mountaineers drawing female inside hot springs (7)

5: Make room for group process (7)

8: Nick shouts - and theres trouble brewing! (3,5,2,3)

10: State fair without a tree (6,3)

11: Leaf in fancy plate (5)

12: Actual air of confusion calculating insurance premiums (9)

14: Approach hoist (3,2)

17: Left a port near Dubrovnik (5)

18: Projects finally house guys in camps (9)

19: Remove top substituting pints for cups (5)

21: Music direction on, in and at dances (9)

22: 29-acrosss kid almost climbing 14-down obstacle, keeping movers in daze (13)

24: MP insiders use NATO referendum (7)

25: Gingrich said Reagan should not be charged. (7)

Down
2: Ultimately, dconstruire, to the French intellectual, is simple (9)

3: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

4: Miser manufactured Finn's kilt (9)

5: Reptile eventually climbing a hill (5)

6: Bite and flip over -- one way to win a wrestling match (3)

7: Marry large bumpkin (5)

8: OJ rants about USC football players (7)

9: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

11: Left with pal carrying new gold case (11)

13: How might thirteen yearn to meditate? (4,5)

15: Crooked Nile ran on, just not in a straight line (9)

16: Faint pout encompasses beast of burden (4,3)

19: Pitchers were transported south (5)

20: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

21: Love our following morning (5)

23: Bumped into yours truly at junction (3).





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