Phoebe's Birthday Puzzle 2025

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Across
  1. 2. Not quite back before one almost gets nice and crispy
  2. 4. Exotic smash from the men
  3. 5. Wild stop for a kiss, perhaps?
  4. 6. Wine that sparkles in glass and bush
  5. 8. Wizards, knights, and druids of an old tree
  6. 9. Immersive saviours disassembled lies about almost exciting thoughts
  7. 12. Love in action, wild sign is after kindling first
  8. 13. Meat platters found in the festival hall attic
  9. 14. For tonight's suppers, odin topless again
  10. 15. Primarily breezy but quiet, a party to lift both spirits and skirts
  11. 18. Distracted learning in latex celebrations
  12. 20. Five kisses in daring disguised pet name
  13. 22. In a box of puzzle, for locks departing
  14. 23. First duty amid calamitous waters for a pixel paradise
Down
  1. 1. Religious retreat where pictures flowed freely
  2. 2. Headless panic in bottle said where fairies speak the truth
  3. 3. Sly one waiting at the station gates
  4. 4. Away at coliseum pit, sir ed knocked about
  5. 7. Guardian of the night begins snoring deep in relaxation
  6. 10. Mead makers as sung by a clockwork quartet
  7. 11. Sliced and rolled in, makes us hibernate
  8. 16. Berry in salad messily consumed by a steward
  9. 17. About time a stunted wiccan fed to behead missing a body and soul
  10. 19. Flowers behind a wall are endlessly lucky before a topless ferne
  11. 21. Selection of typic nicnacs laid out in country park