CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS 1 Plant life as a whole (10) 8 Catches fire (7) 9 Flinch (5) 10 Walking stick (4) 11 Cat noise (4) 12 Viewing organ (3) 14 Land adjoining a house (6) 15 Polite, respectable (6) 18 Something curved in shape (3) 20 Sixty minutes (4) 21 Hotness, warmth (4) 23 Of mankind (5) 24 Restore to consciousness (5,2) 25 Small decorative gifts (5,5)

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1 Wine merchant (7) 2 Any entrance or way in (4) 3 Paper hanky (6) 4 Frustrated, foiled (8) 5 Snow leopard (5) 6 Reference list of gramophone records (11) 7 Pleasure (11) 13 Job title (8) 16 Comes into view (7) 17 Hard boiled sweet (6) 19 Punctuation mark (5) 22 Long car (4)