PUZZLE 14405

CRYPTIC CLUES

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ACROSS

1 Key groups? (7)

5 General assistants set aside (5)

8 Water supply exhausted but not squandered (4-5)

9 Runner in a vigorous kind of winter sport (3)

10 Put carelessly as friends come

round (4)

12 Bridge master gets a beating

(8)

14 The spirit of France (6)

15 He has a stable job (6)

17 It capers about for exercise (8)

18 Live on a range (4)

21 Robust no-nonsense vehicle

(3)

22 Crude oil in a USA state (9)

24 Remove bearings after a time (5)

25 Fair play for car drivers (7)

DOWN

01 Part of the game is played in one end (5)

02 Love of games (3)

03 Listen to this distortion (4)

04 The agent admits the general is lethargic (6)

05 Surprise shots in a melee (8)

06 He keeps still being a man of spirit (9)

07 Ginger’s stupid laugh (7)

11 This is something between

Greece and Turkey (6,3)

13 Till peas perhaps to make

them sweet (8)

14 Sailor in strange place is

efficient (7)

16 Produced a publication and is

taken to court (6)

19 Some of them will come from

Basra (5)

20 No stranger to what dupes

may be? (4)

23 Respect for a regal method of

self-expression (3)