CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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1. Proper conduct of 4 turns curious (7)

5. It is roughly here and there (5) 8. Abnormally large storm Northeast is suffering (7)

9. Students' club shows Jack the flag (5) 10. Tip one for MC: modern English arrangement (9)

12. Horse will move to the right of East, for example, backing (3)

13. Barnaby's companion rapped at Poe's door (5)

17. Fairylike child almost ran away backwards (3)

19. Sort of joint found all over the world (9) 21. Firmly place one's foot on a growing thing (5)

22. One rejected is no longer fashionable with the players (7)

24. Sailor will dry right out if behindhand (5) 25. Broken reed any might have longed for (7)

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1. Perhaps rude about half of them being so modest (6)

2. Seeing no good in New York, California and Channel Islands (7)

3. The rubbish one wrote about it (3) 4. Sam devised a code for the Carpenter's companion (5)

5. A whist call that's in plentiful supply (9) 6. Having wig on that's somehow not yet paid for (5)

7. Boat's smaller craft one will offer for acceptance (6)

11. Attempt to follow car brand with decorative work in wood (9)

14. Look with contempt on how it did a sin (7)

15. Poet at variance with Dormouse's situation (6)

16. With grooves it sounded mellifluous (6) 18. Faculty for nosing out first fox's hiding-place (5)

20. Off-white and gold Aralia is around (5) 23. Two Scots in an American airline (3)