CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1.

The pandemonium when a mouse is discovered between the sheets? (6)

4. Two lines found in the horoscope (6)

9. Cook the chook – what a pagan! (7)

10. Testing parsnip pyrometer showed it was a bit cold (5)

11. You can tell ripe bananas, Alfred. It has to do with the nose (5)

12. Some money student, on more than one occasion, found in the barn storage (7)

13. Unchangeable decision made like hay (3-3-5)

18. Exaggerate the size of the kilt bag perhaps (4,3)

20. Yet the Epsom downs race is not in run this city (5)

22. Gives a habit the boot (5)

23. A law concerning aircraft? Ham it up! (7)

24. The endings all sound the same to me (6)

25. The refectory of a religious house was on a cargo ship by the sound of it (6)

Down

1. What 15dn could be from the back (6)

2. Carts used to collect squirrel nests so to speak (5)

3. The graph Eli analysed showed the orbits furthest from the sun (7)

5. He, with no alternative returned to New York (5)

6. Oppose a baby carrier (7)

7. Cooperatively did not prevail with the prairie wolf . . . (6)

8. . . . who ended up in a crate for being naughty . . . (2,3,3,3)

14. . . . being ill-fated (7)

15. Animal could be a communist my love, I hear (3,4)

16. Can you get fired from this job? Yes everyday (6)

17. She’ll (I see) will keep a secret well (6)

19. Return with some giblets ablaze to moisten while cooking . . . (5)

21. . . . for the Sunday dinner (5)