Cryptic Crossword

Both sets of clues fit both grids

ACROSS

1 Just beat boy to nautical post (7)

5 Paris underground going through some trouble (5)

8 Bitter cold in dry environment (5)

9 Does ice form in bishop’s area? (7)

10 Loftier, straggling plant (7)

11 Animal sounding croaky, they say (5)

12 Form you begin to find stylish (6)

14 Mould a Leatherhead official (6)

18 Region round northern stadium (5)

20 Delivery at nightclub door (7)

22 Mother in need of man a shade (7)

23 Article in Gaelic to wipe out (5)

24 State new refinement (5)

25 Eastern nations’ landed properties (7)

DOWN

1 Talk about leader of order, in charge, and confused (7)

2 Super sort of bread-holder (5)

3 Tiresome Edward promises to pay (7)

4 Show agreement, led out by head (6)

5 Walk slowly and aimlessly to low church (5)

6 Proposition in article on Rome, possibly (7)

7 To be seen holding in fat (5)

13 Seeks retribution for Geneva’s collapse (7)

15 Nothing to turn up before period of fasting – that’s rich! (7)

16 Food stores in cars, we hear (7)

17 A school jacket nearly on fire (6)

18 Let in to confess (5)

19 Nine in a frenzy after a musical (5)

21 Handiwork on boat (5)