CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. How temperate Europe is! (9)

5. Not many give iron to the wife (3)

7. Is dead behind the clock (4)

8. Let Strad be played, which gave one a shock (8)

10. Lives in a vowel-change that restricts one (8)

11. First light to get on one, one will realise (4)

13. Monster Zola might have regarded as cheesy (6)

15. Act of worship might repay rebel leader (6)

18. Slight collision may be felt by a phrenologist (4)

19. An overtone got when mouth-organ isn’t finished (8)

22. Is coming to hear of erudition (8)

23. He makes a dandy sort of lover (4)

24. Misery is nothing you and I can circumvent (3)

25. Clung with feet maybe so as to bend the knee (9)

DOWN

1. Visiting may be one’s vocation (7)

2. Nick makes the North turn hot and cold (5)

3. Something that exists with tin yet to be sorted out (6)

4. A slick to tryout at Silverstone final (4)

5. The wrong idea about calf lay around (7)

6. Get broader, as I’d new version of it (5)

9. An unmarried father with no end of baby to rock (5)

12. Tread heavily on a cargo-boat (5)

14. Odd sort of game such a sale can be (7)

16. Take on new people in order to cure it, right? (7)

17. Around the North chapter member is among the big guns (6)

18. It’s dot up to the wind around the East (5)

20. She might be found topless in Venice (5)

21. Warm and cosy sort of bar (4)