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PUZZLE 14651

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Reproached about British money issue (5) 4 Ill-mannered person with dog in queue (7) 8 Pay for service (3) 9 Drawn wine ready to be put out (9) 10 Properties of oriental expresses (7) 11 Go easy - Mabel is upset (5) 13 Island where spring starts frostily (6) 15 Little girl scoffed at argument (6) 18 Excursion for everyone within the bounds of Sydney (5) 19 Given up to the faithful (7) 21 Pure lives wrongly construed as obnoxious (9) 23 Danny takes her to heart (3) 24 He breaks down in the course of investigation (7) 25 They’re found by the sea and on board ship (5)

DOWN

1 People said to suffer in their chests? (7) 2 I’d upset a client just the same (9) 3 A store of French cannabis (5) 4 District that provides a capital start to the holiday (6) 5 Material for a European steel centre (7) 6 A state in America - no matter which? (3) 7 New gold key for the house (5) 12 Main line transport? (4,5) 14 Constant quality (7) 16 Sending out terminations (7) 17 Powerless, being caught in a heap of snow (6) 18 Republic that is a year in the making (5) 20 New verse goes in a different direction (5) 22 It’s small and green like some unripe apples (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Obstinately opinionated person (5) 4 Buoy up (7) 8 Unruly crowd (3) 9 Everyone that arrives (3,6) 10 Lean and bony (7) 11 Angrily (5) 13 Conveyed in a car (6) 15 Limb of tree (6) 18 To stake (5) 19 Poster (7) 21 Lacking information (2,3,4) 23 Earlier (3) 24 Supposed (7) 25 United Kingdom principality (5)

DOWN

1 To attack with shells (7) 2 Have no takers (2,7) 3 Walk wearily (5) 4 Oppressively hot (6) 5 Suffocate (7) 6 The one in cards (3) 7 Objectionable (5) 12 Fruitlessly (2,2,5) 14 Intensely serious (7) 16 Repulsive (7) 17 Hilly country (6) 18 Spin with humming noise (5) 20 Out of line (5) 22 Highest (3)