CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Charged too much for being shorn of coat (7)

5. When men do wrong, it’s the devil (5)

8. In the meanwhile it makes miner uneasy (7)

9. I am, in being intoxicated, to keep it within bounds (5)

10. It would rather hug before the fire (9)

12. Bee precedes it in spring (3)

13. Army medic is to start treatment on the tearful (5)

17. It’s odd that it should be red or white (3)

19. Newspapers make the Scots go and dragoon one (5-4)

21. Fifty in the safe that might be counterfeit (5)

22. Marine team found at the coast (7)

24. Be short and steer around it (5)

25. Had a great desire for a twelvemonth to end in disorder (7)

DOWN

1. Escape, necessitating takeoff and landing (6)

2. One who’s put in for natter about nitrogen maybe (7)

3. Vehicle about to go right (3)

4. Object to the way murder is inconclusive (5)

5. Congress members one entrusts to subordinates (9)