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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 How one may receive payment of a sort (2,4) 4 Dr Flower is ill-tempered (6) 9 In this state a priest holds a degree (7) 10 Cancel the right to go in peace (5) 11 Quick to move, I left in time (5) 12 One who insists on facts is later confused (7) 13 Its operators require hard cash (4,7) 18 An agitated Sioux with a worried look (7) 20 Deposit for a house (5) 22 It’s held by solicitors to be permissible (5) 23 Sign of repentance in spring? (3,4) 24 Clergyman takes a point to heart and is fired (6) 25 Russian leader made his mark about fifty (6)

DOWN

1 At home and not at home to some extent (2,1,3) 2 Colour uniformly used (5) 3 Certainly it’s not far eastern in origin (7) 5 One may go to the theatre to see it some time after work (5) 6 Speech, making no allowance (7) 7 Such things happen even on the way up (6) 8 Terrifying cure for baldness? (4-7) 14 Dictionary for the French team to study (7) 15 Would it take another like him to be of one mind? (7) 16 Left turns right in French cooking plant (6) 17 Soundly confuse (6) 19 Go beyond an alfresco celebration (5) 21 Live and prosper, lacking nothing (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 King of the Huns (6) 4 Used for growing crops (6) 9 Model of excellence (7) 10 Grown-up (5) 11 Up to now (2,3) 12 Display (7) 13 Emergency food supplies (4,7) 18 Aware (7) 20 Special aptitude (5) 22 Combination (5) 23 Mythical one-horned animal (7) 24 Carp constantly (6) 25 Instrumentality (6)

DOWN

1 Power to attract (6) 2 Late(5) 3 Alleviate (7) 5 Attain (5) 6 A corn whiskey (7) 7 Landed property (6) 8 Regarded with suspicion (5,1,5) 14 In succession (7) 15 Faint suspicion (7) 16 Attack as false (6) 17 Very thin (6) 19 Ultimate (5) 21 Nut of the oak (5)