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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 There's little time for pressing (7) 5 Pull together on an ash tree (5) 8 My! Chopin's remarkably harmonious (9) 9 Sign of nerves in a politician (3) 10 It is not hard getting in the asylum (4) 12 Learn lines for speaking (8) 14 Energetic secret agent takes a nap inside (6) 15 Entertains doctors (6) 17 It highlights the way East Europeans repair roads (4,4) 18 Slide in flexible disk (4) 21 Row maker, or so it sounds (3) 22 A choice literary gathering (9) 24 Head of state moves to centre, showing discrimination (5) 25 Stop payment - we object during pay out (7)
Down
1 Could be a periodical dispute (5) 2 All's not all, we hear (3) 3 Pine used in making a tea chest (4) 4 A number put on tissue (6) 5 Hope for the lost and sick (8) 6 Many papers have been impressed by it (9) 7 Uncle is out to get us; that's the heart of the matter (7) 11 Weapons that don't reach very far? (5,4) 13 A top seat for a renegade (8) 14 Pile up in game (7) 16 They involve a shift in one's beliefs (6) 19 Boring commercial for spirit (5) 20 Far from stern? Fiddlesticks! (4) 23 Having nothing we must be in the red (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Make trivial objections (7) 5 Physically weak (5) 8 Unbiased (9) 9 Choose (3) 10 A culinary herb (4) 12 Causing disagreement (8) 14 Mythical fire-breathing creature (6) 15 Sordid (6) 17 Declared party policy (8) 18 Dexterous (4) 21 Allow (3) 22 Worldwide (9) 24 Great fear (5) 25 Spectral (7)
DOWN
1 Even (5) 2 Mischievous child (3) 3 Tedious person (4) 4 Panacea (6) 5 Liable to err (8) 6 Loathe (9) 7 Matter of pure chance (7) 11 Ensure (9) 13 Throw into confusion (8) 14 Variegated in patches (7) 16 Troublesome (6) 19 Correspond (5) 20 Nought (4) 23 Solidify (3)