CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Divide the cult in two? (6) 4. Allow to be lean (6) 9. Gets Tau a rat maybe or a lizard from NZ (7) 10. Mr Spearman? (5) 11. Diamond I’m out to get as extra (3,2) 12. Managing the marathon (7) 13. Where to look for chickens? (6,5) 18. Shin, leg & tongue (7) 20. What’s in the ship “Escargot” (5) 22. Had input into 18’s development to a degree (5) 23. Clive? He drove around in this (7) 24. The most senior of the Bakersfield establishment (6) 25. Pictures of playground equipment (6)

Down

1. Had nothing to do with robbin’ – or did he as we speak? (6) 2. Draws back the turf (5) 3. The char, Nellie, worked in the house (7) 5. Material used in any longline (5) 6. Drag out fingerboard for burning (7) 7. Menagerie Ian will come out of? (6) 8. Miss by a whisker? (6,5) 14. Got into gear but otherwise in use (7) 15. It’s served at the local? Oh! (7) 16. Hand grenade cad ejected inside ten years (6) 17. Nonbelievers, Bernie goes out for books (6) 19. Inventive designs encouraged initially as thought process (5) 21. Ran cadre possibly (5)