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Quick Crossword #13

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Across

1 Larger Reiki club overturned and vacuous cognoscenti expelled (7)

5 Succumb rapidly to reveal inner darkness (5)

8 Incorrectly opening a great gulf between X and Y? (10,3)

9 Indicating more than one unbreakable piece of glass (5)

10 Vehicle used to promote a movie (7)

12 Admen I excite with middling value (6)

13 Emphasise mental strain (6)

16 In the years after Christ鈥檚 birth, the Lord God was a monster (7)

18 Requires detective sergeant to refer to one鈥檚 birth name first (5)

20 Curiously, a tidal quarrel has four sides (13)

22 Depot contents: a pair of axes and some glue (5)

23 Play low card, leading to 45 years of subdued hostility (4,3)

Down

1 Swampland American is insincere (5)

2 Some non-zero quantity of fat surrounding item of conference attire (7)

3 Let aid arrive from the south, partly to give an X-ray (9)

4 Inappropriate to rate spin (6)

5 How unpleasantness begins: with initial focus on alien craft (3)

6 Bread roll to grow old in the British Library (5)

7 Polish mothers besieging French fathers for electrical units (7)

11 Natalie lost two extremities after ascending Etna during pregnancy (9)

12 Monkey micturates a little following sound of anti-aircraft fire (7)

14 Boy, were doctors raised on Roger Moore! (7)

15 Sugar licensee has a string of clove suppliers? (6)

17 As far as I鈥檓 concerned, having a silver filling designates a complete louse (5)

19 Fly around lower west side to get connected with a star (5)

21 Ignore the odd greasy fish (3)

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