CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

7. Grandma lay about in the country (6)

8. Rush headlong into occupation (6)

9. Collaborated return of vegetable (4)

10 & 13ac. maybe, but will be undecided (3,2,3,5)

11. Where they can have their cake and eat it too, and some wine (7)

13. See 10

15. Spot to sort out sprockets (5)

17. She will succeed (7)

20. Entrance Doris Doe perhaps (4,4)

21. Body part of a northern primate (4)

23 & 24ac. They pop up (or out) at regular intervals (6,6)

Down

1. The attorney says “Thanks” for the information (4)

2. American girl gets some raw material, a lot of it! (6)

3. Washers are bound to hold ships (7)

4. A pretty keen angle (5)

5. Third (6)

6. Stops and looks over again (8)

12. Stuck up equal pip material (8)

14. To cut the throat out of the oystercatcher, furtiveness is required (7)

16. Moondance? Very naughty! (6)

18. Romans’ money (6)

19. Mike abandons motorbike for automaton (5)

22. Yesterday

Across: 1 & 25ac. Curtain raisers, 5. Nymph, 8. Clamp, 9. Dunedin, 10. Any, 11. Axle, 12. Stem, 14. Leered, 15. Salmon, 17. Woks, 18. Anne, 19. Arc, 21. Unnerve, 23. Saute, 24. Tired. Down: 1. Cocoa, 2. Ready reckoner, 3. Alphabet, 4. Nodule, 5. Nan, 6. Made to measure, 7. Hangman, 13. Water ski, 14. Lawsuit, 16. Endear, 20. Crews, 22. Red.