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end of play (6)

25 Rum soul? (6)

DOWN

1 Maestro on a bus? (9)

2 Fainted, having completed military training (6,3)

3 Regrets accepting 50 regulations (5)

4 Row with journalist having eaten (5)

5 100 request a barrel (4)

6 Democratic leader with Andrew – a smartly-dressed man (5)

10 Popular pet, terribly clumsy (5)

11 Wood is ruined by one (5)

12 Something worn by minister

1 Dispatch, 5 Head, 8 Meal, 9 Geranium, 10 Golfers, 12 Stern,

13 Dugout, 15 Bottom, 17 Ledge, 18 Thrifty, 22 Aversion, 23 Hair, 24 Nine,

25 Critical.

1 Damaged, 2 Stall, 3 Tiger, 4 Harp, 6 Exigent, 7 Demon, 11 Elude,

12 Scour, 14 Gudgeon, 16 Mayoral, 17 Learn, 19 Hindi, 20 Franc, 21 Disc.

DOWN:

or boxer? (3,6)

13 New text about wanderer – a sociable person (9)

17 Hoard found in the morning on a ship (5)

19 In the past, extremely nasty pain (5)

20 Louts crushed a plant (5)

21 Excitement in prison (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Bronze coin, informally (6)

4 Period of ten years (6)

7 Food, informally (4)

8 Westernmost point of Cornwall (5,3)

9 Instalment (7)

12 Tint (3)

14 Short-handled gardening tool (6)

15 Searched for (6)

16 Rodent (3)

18 Huntsman’s cry (5-2)

22 Bugle call (4,4)

23 Primary colour (4)

24 Fish-eating bird (6)

25 Ghost (6)

DOWN

1 Orchestral director (9)

2 Fainted (6,3)

3 Reigns (5)

4 Ate dinner (5)

5 Barrel (4)

6 Beau (5)

10 Awkward (5)

11 Hard dark wood (5)

12 Clergyman’s neckwear (3,6)

13 Outgoing person (9)

17 Accumulate (5)

19 Anguish (5)

20 Languor-inducing fruit (5)

21 Commotion (4)