CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Come to the top when car blows fuse (7)

5. Scold one with words not in dignified use (5)

8. Look into how I could have spent cent (7)

9. Resist authority by distributing the beer left (5)

10. Mischievous elf seen holing out with Bob (9)

12. Make a medley, or the start of one, before nine (3)

13. In a picnic or a lunch-box find lobster roe (5)

17. In AD1, succour was found (3) 19. Keep one amused, having sent certain starters away (9)

21. Impose bounds beyond which it's impossible to go (5)

22. Get to grips with the Greek Granny Smith (7)

24. Animal DNA is replaced in the father (5) 25. Tell stories that more can adapt to (7)

Down

1. It isn't much of an affront (6)

2. It makes one laugh, Sir, with bile perhaps (7)

3. Copy heads of all participating entrants (3)

4. Give much praise to Lex for arranging it (5)

5. He kills one he doesn't know, holding top of lance (9)

6. Book this presentation for a disc (5) 7. Splendid assemblage becomes slack in gay setting (6)

11. A lot of players reach sort of arrangement (9)

14. Produce a point that will shift her pans (7)

15. A run for a string will go round everything quietly (6)

16. Remain firm, showing that this is the entrance (6)

18. A devil made me nod distractedly (5) 20. Such country is dead rough for the golfing cat (5)

23. One's ambition was to make first road north a motorway (3)