A Curious Collection Crossword

A Curious Collection is a medium English-language crossword with 30 clues. A mixed Brain Boost with words, everyday knowledge and fresh connections

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Across

1. Unexpected difficulty or obstruction
5. Not quite right
10. Sweet carbonated drink of a familiar dark type
11. Frantically active, in informal usage
12. Value that makes a polynomial equal zero
13. A visitor's answer to 'Who's there?' (3,2)
14. Reveal, like a mystery plot
16. Metal container for biscuits, in British usage
17. Urban rapid-transit railway
18. Very light in color
19. Room below ground level
21. Troops who move on horseback
22. Positively charged particle in an atomic nucleus
24. Cry of discovery
25. Provide, as assistance

Down

1. Organized pushing contest in rugby
2. Not a single person (2,3)
3. Where a sailor climbs toward the masthead
4. Florida swamp resident, informally
5. In the middle of, as a celebration continues
6. Tangled mass of hair
7. Put a new program onto a computer
8. Having many characteristics in common
9. Painted panels for a stage production
15. Found the position of
18. Relating to a flat, two-dimensional surface
20. Bring a feeling or memory to mind
21. Cereal crop with kernels growing on a cob
22. For each, as in a rate, or by means of
23. Regret bitterly

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