Sunday Times Crossword 4806

Across

1 Sending orders, head off for position (10)

6 Long start for hole in one (4)

9 Dance company into dancing without injury (9) 10 Be small, go outside (5) 11 In statistical form? (3,11) 13 By feeding alien, painter will produce more (5) 14 Farm worker rejected flood relief (9)

15 Say it, say this in French (9) 17 It’s awkward to sleep in it (5)

19 Be a fan of hovering? (4,3,3,4) 22 Reason fire’s not turned on (5)

23 Chorus in simple boating song (9)

24 What a shame — lines are wrong (4)

25 Bearing right, soldiers enter arsenal (10)

Down

1 Chest pain (4)

2 Poet dealt with teacher’s raised temperature (7) 3 Nonsense! Lines mean nothing — rope binds (4,2,7) 4 The spirit of Jungian imagery (5) 5 Mistress caught at the right moment covering chest? (9)

7 Robe, one that’s fancy (7) 8 Old tax declared in Union, they’ll be gutted (6,4) 10 Bandit shot mercenary, keeping one behind (5,8) 12 The country club rep is a criminal (3,7)

14 Out to lunch after day in market town (9) 16 Erratic monarch available (2,5) 18 Finished without help, carrying empty load (3,4) 20 Drug dealer bowed, given new start (5) 21 Spades in black? I’m kidding (4)