CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Firing material (7)

5. Mops for the All Blacks from the Southwest (5)

8. 16dn gets bridge player for Mr. Stamp (7) 9. Appropriately carpet layer loses career (5)

10. Icon epees are part of the spectacle (9)

12. See 13

13 & 12ac. Bravo! Pea was more than average (5,3)

17. Sum up a Dungeon & Dragons play (3)

19. Settle dispute for A. & I. Barrett (9)

21. Dreamed up loved one was an adult insect (5)

22. No change of fishing tackle needed to get to the run down (3-4)

24. Working on leave (5) 25. Snap leg unfortunately on bright stud (7)

Down

1. Yet you make a stand with them! (3-3)

2. Process the bodies (7) 3. Where you may stay if you are out surprisingly (3)

4. Bird returns from the icebergs (5)

5. An assertion that it is a testament (9)

6. Be naughty like Juliet in her famous scene (3,2)

7. Speakers of “Aye!” & “Right!” in the ship (6)

11. Go with the flow with any gallop (4,5)

14. Support is on the cards for stopping (7)

15. Turning ashen when using the fencing item (6)

16. In concert necessitates return for the middle bit (6)

18. Carl leaves Archibald with Abu (5)

20. Goes broke with the sculptures (5)

23. Discovered girl in a busman’s holiday (3)