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The ultimate reply to this cryptic crossword is the identify of a Christmas carol, whose three-word title may be extracted from the letters of the grid. I hope you take pleasure in!

ACROSS
1 Quote results in the Nesbit, Mississippi Republic (4)
3 Boss’s travelling between Pennsylvania and Oklahoma recognized with outdated monetary report (8)
9 Let it go: O’s exhausted from Foster pitching escapade, giving up 6 after the primary (3,4)
10 Rolled over and skinned after cleansing pointy instrument (5)
11 School for lad, Yarboro Finishing, to protest over shedding second place, upfront (11)
13 At the second, me, not I, is used incorrectly (2,4)
15 Closer in Golden, CO revival (6)
17 Bachelor debut: nurse, nun scrambling to beat blonde’s lead; European red-head is a supply of warmth (6,6)
20 Amex transaction gives bonus (5)
21 Clean-cut Partridge Family opener covers Outfield after Weir’s last-second cancellation (7)
22 Seeing Wounded Knee in a day offers time to chill out (8)
23 Location decreasingly used for music membership closing down? (4)

DOWN
1 Sewer crochets eyelet stitches at first, organising loops (8)
2 Donation to chook rehab returned with neither envelope nor enclosed letter of introduction (5)
4 Mania handled with drug injection ends in a scarcity of vigor (6)
5 Vacuum gadgets fill small plastic cups with dangerous pinot and rum; Merry’s third is spit out (7,5)
6 Bloom hid by whorl and ovary (7)
7 Crazy textual content saying sure consists of two emoji hearts (4)
8 Fear shedding major proper to life in Mississippi? Perspicacious. This is an indication one thing is unsuitable (5,7)
12 Superb rectifier with diminished voltage fluctuation (8)
14 Agent utters wanton nonsense at closing (7)
16 Spread lies about scenario, finally! (6)
18 English supermodel mirrored on initially supporting Bowie’s alternative of partner (5)
19 Cat-call disturbs girls no finish (4)

EDIT NOTES: Fixed dangerous positioning of 1 down clue, and added increased decision picture for grid.