Crossword by Boffles

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No.265

Across

1 Badly damaged Chinatown (7)

5 Bog standard degree as written (5)

8 Shorten a river crossing (7)

9 Stuff oneself with Cheddar? (5)

10 Follow directions, girl (5)

11 Luxury cars around monster lacking right for pottery city (7)

12 New York City (4,2)

13 Conventional sort of place? (6)

16 Wild party girl around Italian city (7)

19 ‘Under my …… The girl who once pushed me around’ Jagger/Richards (5)

21 French relative – mine starred in a film (5)

22 Royal house revealed when morning after loses weight (7)

24 Your old syndrome has culinary use (5)

25 Somebody suffering from shell shock? (7)

Down

1 Seaman who ducked and dived a bit (5)

2 Peers expert at judo? (5)

3 Artful team? (7)

4 Used by seamstresses to annoy? (6)

5 Emphatic exclamation purchase something to chew, we hear (2,3)

6 Bit of foliage from a small prude (5)

7 China has a show of flowers (7)

12 Plan physical exercise (4,3)

14 Volcanoes can be and passenger pigeons are (7)

15 Charlemagne capital article incorporates pain (6)

17 French spa popular with Nazis (5)

18 Relative has an accent in France (5)

20 Canton capital set alight, it sounds (5)

23 By way of Roman road (3)

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