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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS 1. Where favourites go to the dance one may be sold a pup (7) 5. Baby-wrapper with clip, hard to adjust (5)

8. Stingy rate demand showed how it was spun (7) 9. Boat’s crew is drunk, having one over them (5) 10. Ruffian who dreads Poe being upset (9)

12. Yet this roof is corrugated iron! (3)

13. So worthy one is at fault (5)

17. Clumsy chap doesn’t begin to loiter about (3)

19. At event, it turns out to be far from sure (9)

21. Be around the furrow that belongs to the lower animals (5) 22. Study, with diplomacy, how one can get in touch (7) 24. Bumps end so confusedly (5)

25. The height at which woman will take things easy (7)

DOWN

1. Father takes a deity inside this eastern temple (6) 2. Pushes forward this corrosion inside, one having left (7) 3. Trick of three successive wickets fashioned by milliner (3) 4. Where in Italy a DA might get up to it (5)

5. Such extraordin­ary things to heap on men like this (9) 6. Get off a vehicle when short of cash (5)

7. Not liking to give 3 a gin cocktail (6)

11. Makes one acrimoniou­s to have met tribes in uproar (9) 14. Thomas Atkins will keep himself to himself (7)

15. Old shilling receptacle used with cotton on it (6)

16. Half a dozen may be applied to notes (6) 18. Establish how it was discovered (5)

20. Cognac receptacle partly made of mother-of-pearl (5) 23. It shows one to have been born a woman (3)

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