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ACROSS

8 Improve quality of henna distributed by church (7)

9 Former one the French

banish (5)

10 Retains centimetre

outside – huge gap! (5) 11 Awfully rude in conclusion, though put up with it (7)

12 Immaculate nails Tess

put in order (9)

15 Best vessel sent

back (3)

16 Mimic chimpanzee (3) 17 Careless about placing

duck in stew (9)

20 Pressing therapy at

sushi place (7)

22 Professional life, English disregarded, for a vocational role (5) 24 In Salem, I am in US

city (5)

25 Hear crook is a fast

mover (7) 1 Traces changes, as responds to stimulus (6)

2 Which person at a

stop (4)

3 Memory aid for a thousand con men, I gathered (8)

4 Strike out as allowed in

the river (6)

5 Ruminants turning up

at waterside grass (4)

6 In opera they sing it, or

belt it out (8)

7 Satirise dupes travelling round north (4,2)

13 Overseas visitor, a guy going round Morecambe (8)

14 Drew the decks

roughly (8)

16 Take for granted

Sue and Sam are involved (6)

18 Origin of impudent

behaviour, it’s said (6) 19 Coarse like a

planet? (6)

21 Neat, square edge (4) 23 Celebrity raised

rodents (4)

QUICK

ACROSS

8 Clean (clothes) (7)

9 Member of a

coven (5)

10 Shirk (5)

11 Injured (a horse) to prevent it from winning a race (7)

12 Trimmed pork bones

in tangy sauce (5,4)

15 Bitterly cold (3)

16 Be sick (3)

17 Reddened by too

much ultraviolet (9)

20 Soft sweet (7)

22 High rank or

character (5)

24 Defence of being

elsewhere (5)

25 Saved from

danger (7)

DOWN

1 Adapts (6)

2 Cougar (4)

3 Lazy behaviour (8)

4 Sultanate bordering

Malaysia (6)

5 Absorbent cotton

pad (4)

6 Mare’s partner (8)

7 Tawdry (6)

13 Legendary island said to have sunk below the sea (8) 14 Self-righteous

complacency (8)

16 Noisy quarrel (6)

18 Type or disposition (6) 19 Fears intensely (6)

21 Singapore’s continent (4) 23 Image out of focus (4)

THE XFILES

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