CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Set with mishap at sea? They hope not! (9) 6 Animal with desire has briefly got outside (5) 9 Dad — gosh! — beginning to nibble cinema food (7) 10 Box with crazy old jokes? (9) 11 Skilled worker is biased, wanting leader got rid of (7) 12 A new husband in gloomy state — a male condition! (7) 13 Admit defeat now and then, sir? Oh, that’s bad! (5,2,4,4) 18 Removes risk element from brilliant exercises (7) 20 Applauds a miser reforming, having hoarded pennies once (7) 22 One can work a miracle? The claim’s false! (9) 23 Severe sort of wind heading for England (7) 24 Most of cast starts to experience pressure

— docile types? (5) 25 Support one group and tease kids naughtily (4,5)

DOWN

1 Replace inadequate substitute worker (8) 2 Phoney person gets nothing right, going after this person’s job (8) 3 Indigenous people wander north over island (6) 4 Container that’s brown put outside home, third for recycling (3,3) 5 Business guys reconvened en masse, about fifty (8) 6 Has to go around smart coastal town (8) 7 Does wrong, pocketing copper coin (6) 8 A maiden exploited, unlike a famous queen? (6) 14 Exhausted wife, a female joining party in NI (6-2) 15 Out-of-sorts titaness can be most unpleasant (8) 16 A situation where some may be brought down to earth (8) 17 Little girl with emotional state, extreme suffering (8) 18 Road held up with animals hidden under covers (6) 19 Superficial account placed in record folder (6) 20 A change of policy said to be needed in military action (6) 21 Lots of married fools (6)