Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Outsize vehicles at Hollywood ceremony (6) 4 Imagine dropping one obscure riddle (6) 9 Test model currency (5) 10 Letters mailed to a remote settlement? (7) 11 Male can somehow show physical restraint (7) 12 Bad place offering initial salutation (5) 13 Alphabetically effortless? (2,4,2,3) 18 Quickly go round leaky ends of sea creature (5) 20 Wrap up, even perhaps cut (7) 22 Charm of another name belonging to us (7) 23 Delivered although had not been spent (5) 24 Thrown to journalist on ship (6) 25 Private remarks from assistants holding squadron leader (6)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Implant (6) 4 One who watches (6) 9 Candy ___, fairground confection (5) 10 Treat tyrannically (7) 11 Aerosol (7) 12 Totally bare (5) 13 Fortified wine from Harvey’s, eg (5,6) 18 Exude perspiration (5) 20 Mosquito-borne disease (7) 22 Intermediary (7) 23 Give the cold shoulder to (5) 24 Warm hand-covering (6) 25 Enter (4,2)

DOWN

1 Prompt me into changes (2,4) 2 Conservative to listen out for patrons (7) 3 In barrel I concealed a thing of the past (5) 5 Cuts on chest treated (7) 6 Develop large menacing sound (5) 7 Novelist restyles our hat (6) 8 Tell any hero about single person looking for love (6,5) 14 Authorise putting damaged prop in the avenue (7) 15 Adored little rodent back up in garden plot (7) 16 Increase pulse and get optimistic (6) 17 Suit those covered in soil? (6) 19 Lots of burdens (5) 21 Saves damaged urns (5)

DOWN

1 Swarm over (6) 2 Scrubbing pad (7) 3 Rough and scratchy (voice) (5) 5 Trespass (7) 6 Mollusc (5) 7 Dwell (6) 8 Food (11) 14 Public performer (7) 15 Change direction (7) 16 Place of safety (6) 17 Old large heavy gun (6) 19 Precise (5) 21 Capture with a rope (5)