CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Decency of 20s art style had spirit (7)

5. Shaftesbury, say, didn't begin a meeting-place for sport (5)

8. Sort of rose like a mountaineer (7)

9. Where cowboys were up before the ring (5)

10. It may be advisable to index it thus with Pete (9)

12. Being ovine, she can go backwards and forwards (3)

13. Try to get a lift with digit on the radial side (5)

17. Rust on trees starts the decay (3)

19. Thought well of Crete and sped round it (9)

21. It could be safe to hold pounds, but it's bogus (5)

22. Substitute for parcel distributed to the East (7)

24. Principle one maintains is true either way (5)

25. Thoroughly known to print the second side of it (7)

Down

1. To deck out with a label (6)

2. It may have brought tea to the man tackling his hedge (7)

3. Steal from Scott's Roy (3)

4. Put it together in stretch of water around Gateshead (5)

5. It might rival beet to be truly so called (9)

6. A prod from George V when in the altogether (5)

7. Brought forth the dove and kept half in turmoil (6)

11. It discourages one, having erred with making of tent (9)

14. Fully gratify one with tea as it is brewed (7)

15. Gain port, if it can be made (6) 16. Before Christmas, turn from Veda to the New Testament (6)

18. Tonal variation in a hooked nail (5)

20. Sharpen razor and cease when it's about right (5)

23. In which two putts a green are allowed to be of equal value (3)