Enjoyable and straightforward with a broad range of devices but nothing too obscure.

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Not too difficult a Pasquale today.  Some nice surfaces, abundant use of the containment device, some religious references here and there, reference to a not obscure but raunchy person, and the last one for me to parse, an obscure, to a non-cricket fan, reference.  Thanks Pasquale.  Definitions are underlined in the clues.  [[Each of the pictures at the bottom has an unidentified link with the puzzle.  For the sake of a certain party(parties?) please double-bracket comments about pics like I've done with these last 3 sentences.  Thank you.]]

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As it is the last Wednesday of the month, one would expect to find Crosophile standing in for Dac.

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Baffling rubric until the penny eventually dropped after four days of cogitation. This difficult crossword concerned a “meeting” between A Crosse and D Owen.

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