CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

7. Does he continually laugh out loud? What a lazybones! (6)

8. Blokes get old in the household (6)

10. Itches with a change and becomes the most painful (7)

11. The spinner is working so get a refill (3,2)

12. Gunner returns with my service (4)

13. A sign of the same thing (5)

17. Card game played by the fire? (5)

18. The present substitute (4)

22. Shovelled to get sled out of the shack … (5)

23. … neither was inside (7)

24. What Cockneys called baby wolves? They could be for dinner if out of the nest (6)

25. Skipjack finds flying mammal on the French water (6)

Down

1. Peer of the realm, an accountant, has the latest calendar (7)

2. Used to find a pot of gold (hopefully) (7)

3. Scratched the car’s paint and found the pitch (5)

4. Martial art necessary to get back to headquarters (7)

5. Silly or foolish – like a army engineer? (5)

6. Jumped to do gym on the meadow (5)

9. Two aliens quiet about the decorum (9)

14. Gaiety and merry with it (7)

15. Diluted and gave a drink (7)

16. Re: No 75 (7)

19. Fire the gun to scare the first thrush (5)

20. Seen down in the mouth (5)

21. Bribe the Cockney to go and fetch headgear (3,2)