CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. Historic time to rue changes made to grazing (7)

5. Mackerel catcher right in the middle of shellfish spawn (5)

8. The things editors write for heads of state (7)

9. I'd gone after the oil-platform without bending (5)

10. Roughly, Euro capital gets on by being thrown over horse (9)

12. Black stuff is only half enough to clothe a Scot (3)

13. Control that has sole application (5) 17. High shot would get by to try to influence members (3)

19. Despatched the diet, deep in confusion around ten (9)

21. Meeting of bards and druids without Day's Date is prickly (5)

22. It shows contrition, writer breaking the cane (7)

24. The taking of article, a foot short (5) 25. Place it within American backing before tea-break (7)

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1. Grand home is a step in which American city is involved (6)

2. Overwhelmed, could be damp three ways (7)

3. Profit derived from property: what's it good for? (3)

4. Letters that are doubly curvy (5) 5. Sort-out of grants gave rise to it getting choked (9)

6. On the one hand, it is what one's entitled to (5)

7. Free tours about 500 English houses (6) 11. Again try to get cheque paid if one will stand for it (9)

14. Flower has incomplete petal, one French, one English in it (7)

15. Some steps taken by way of leaving the ground (6)

16. Stick in this position after notice (6)

18. It is carried right in the centre of the femur, say (5)

20. Vicars of Rome one impignorates around the East (5)

23. Clear of all charges one may get from the sea (3)