CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

1. Inspire the factory to make rockets (9)

5. How ordinary thief starts with it being stolen (3)

7. Get nothing to start making it, so leave it out (4)

8. Actively contending with Tamil in Trincomalee initially (8)

10. Positively asserting canine mother has involuntary twitch (8)

11. The volition of the occident is sick (4)

13. Something designed to hide half the depravity (6)

15. Ragged sort of obelus (6)

18. Darkness of spirit returns at end of week (4)

19. An urchin will not give a straight answer to a swine (8)

22. Sort of rose like a flag (8)

23. Go and change direction (4)

24. Small dwelling for a poet to lie in (3)

25. The big guns trail about and rely on change (9)

DOWN

1. Being under water, food led to disruption (7)

2. Regretting getting rug in disarray (5)

3. Fruit when dried is put in the wet (6)

4. Don’t read all of it if there’s a lot of rubbish in it (4)

5. Shaping one’s course for the words on top (7)

6. What it adds up to is a lot different after end of August (5)

9. Give as good as one gets at a sporting occasion (5)

12. Severely criticise Georgia getting the knife in Africa (5)

14. Specimen that differs from art, vain as it may be (7)

16. Prinny’s time to cry, Gene works out (7)

17. A confidence expressed in Crete’s reformation (6)

18. Sound art is, to my ears, very agreeable (5)

20. Parliament can place us in a promontory (5)

21. A notion one has when almost defunct (4)