CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Trimmed and ringed round with ash (9) 5. Expert way to apply gentle pressure to flatfish (3) 7. A kiss one left in angle between leaf and stem (4) 8. Our case turns left on the airport luggage conveyor (8) 10. What’s inside the marquee when Conservatives are around (8) 11. Sea duck from the South will cry like a gull (4) 13. Hold one up, breaking date in consequence (6) 15. Backup in autos provided by the wrist (6) 18. Lean on one returning an instrument (4) 19. Have weight at time one may be about fifty (8) 22. It will mitigate everything one found in the head (8) 23. Don’t make correction, seeing it in most ethical way (4) 24. Blimey: the Hebrews used it as a measure! (3) 25. Once under revision, publicly rejected it for good (9)

DOWN 1. Had a brief look that bounced off one (7) 2. It has a predominating influence on the shower, one is told (5) 3. Suit he’s got painting in (6) 4. Small amount of liquid to let go of (4) 5. What could his MP do to help with the washing-up? (7) 6. Be depressed when downstairs at sea (5) 9. A wicked person will do another’s drudgery (5) 12. The boy who flavours the pesto (5) 14. Such bells almost rule 18 Across out (7) 16. Didn’t stay dry as one made people labour for low wages (7) 17. Sort of glove for people holding struggling bird (6) 18. It might cop it as a theme for discourse (5) 20. There’s room aloft for the cat it swings (5) 21. Bitter sound of a funeral frame (4)