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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. Nutrition consumed when eating sulphur maybe (7) 5. Haughty way to do one with lavish entertainm­ent (5) 8. Is always in being given food in a hectic way (7) 9. Pursuit of a type frame one could engrave (5) 10. Decorative work with wood from my quarter perhaps (9) 12. It is allowed to return the vegetable (3) 13. He doesn’t work but is necessary to a set of bagpipes (5) 17. Old Mother joined bard at the centre (3) 19. Praise the Sappers first to bring them to one’s favour (9) 21. Girl responsibl­e for the look of dark areas on the moon (5) 22. A bacterium involved the old boy in crime of a sort (7) 24. Be on one’s feet for a time shared at the wicket (5) 25. How soon rue may become oppressive (7)

DOWN

1. Ill repute gained if many are involved in it (6) 2. Controls what’s excessive in non-u guns (7) 3. Masculine address is up to the king (3) 4. Check the accounts for gold bandit didn’t prohibit (5) 5. My red chap could be a very insensitiv­e person (9) 6. Egg-producer is given nothing to change (5) 7. How lovely to be phantasmag­orical! (6)

11. Surreptiti­ous way to make an arrangemen­t with the hundred (9) 14. A shake in the voice may be lot more awkward (7) 15. Gland that thus causes my upset (6) 16. They have nothing to do with such pulleys (6) 18. A pouch to rub up as it’s overturned (5) 20. Small character part in play is carved out of stone (5) 23. The rod is the remedy, right away (3)

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