CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Proper feeling in this regard (7)

5. Young animals that were meant to be shot (5)

8. They worked hard at an opera by Berlioz (7)

9. Dane was upset about king who had nothing on (5)

10. Limit pace so that it could involve others (9)

12. Understand it to be the domain of a bishop (3)

13. Ceases to take liquid medicament (5)

17. Part of a game for fifteen gets trodden underfoot (3)

19. Made happy to have land edged in such a way (9)

21. So now is put out by a fainting fit (5)

22. Unlucky chap loses his head, getting a smaller amount (7)

24. Bit of a fuss made where crime is committed (5)

25. In the teens, we turn and sugar the pill (7)

DOWN

1. How to sell a litre of it (6)

2. Having shortened the vibrating length, didn’t go on (7)

3. A time that occurs in a December afternoon (3)

4. An opera by Puccini for turncoats (5)

5. It is admitted one feeds NCOs like this (9)

6. Is partial to silk that is woven round end of tie (5)

7. Was fawningly moving crabwise (6)

11. Might need icing if showing need of subsistence (9)

14. Is quite happy with what’s inside it (7)

15. Attempt to take nothing from sots at such meetings (6)

16. A better than even chance that dons do wrong (4,2)

18. First get on the line and blindly feel one’s way (5)

20. Garden pest that could destroy a ship (5)

23. Something crusty to be as sweet as (3)