Double trouble

Each clue leads to two answers which differ from each other by one letter. You must decide which is the correct one. For example, the two possible answers to 1A are PSYCHO and PSYCHE — the answer to 4D will reveal which one is correct.

Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror

ACROSS

1 Classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller • Personification of the soul (6)

5 High-spirited escapade •

Narrow to a point (5)

9 Capable • Modify (5)

10 Arrest • Ecstasy (7)

11 Karate grade •

Unnaturally pale (3)

12 Bullet casing • Bird (9)

13 Boat’s steering mechanism •

Shake (6)

15 Floor of a building • Put by (6) 19 Cortege • Urge, incite (9)

21 Writing implement •

Washing line fastener (3)

22 Dried grapes • Lifting (7) 23 Nerve-racking • Tightly packed (5) 24 Aroma • Subdivision of a play (5) 25 Soak • Spanner (6)

DOWN

2 Lustre • Precipitous (5)

3 Booth •

Dead skin at the fingernail base (7)

4 Put into cipher •

Repeat performance (6)

5 Drunkard • Photocopier ink (5)

6 Gaffe • Ransack (7)

7 Medieval steward • Irritate (5)

8 Male goose • Sex (6)

14 Be given • Be dishonest with (7)

16 Grapple •

Supporting framework (7)

17 Long-eared equine animal •

Primate (6)

18 Frayed •

Having attractively rough-hewn features (6) 19 Ahead of schedule • Noblemen (5) 20 Cooperate • Components (5)

21 Feeling of anxiety • Frenzied (5)