CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. They’re the best able to make the shop manic (9)

5. Snake with feathers that gets worn (3)

7. The century will help out if it’s sour (4)

8. It worries one when buds stir like this (8)

10. Fetch with you the oil included for cooking (8)

11. Will you be archaic, and droop? (4)

13. Is, when held among the others, able to fight back (6)

15. The one and the other, with hesitancy, cause one annoyance (6)

18. The pinnacle is reached by a primate before ten (4)

19. A square of cloth that often comes to hand (8)

22. Support may be rife, as is heard from the engine (8)

23. The end of the church returned in the Spanish Inquisition (4)

24. It may be electric, and currently in the swim (3)

25. A fish that could be lured with melt (3,6)

DOWN

1. Novice driver caught in curve of the road will climb with difficulty (7)

2. Friend from Spain will leave after I am upset (5)

3. Cibols to be soon in production (6)

4. A variety of teas will more than satisfy one (4)

5. Brush in use, if one wants to polish it up (7)

6. There’s something to one’s favour in way seats are arranged (5)

9. The appearance of lightning may be considered vulgar (5)

12. Sort of singer who was in light entertainment (5)

14. Clients may use such a cut-out for copying (7)

16. Think back on what to do if one is a glass (7)

17. Was afraid to be given food if spike of corn was included (6)

18. Wander slowly around Elba motorway (5)

20. How to lie about politician to incite one to action (5)

21. It returns from Canberra, fast, at a distance (4)