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ACROSS 1. Discretion (4)

8. Work (10)

9. Incline (8)

10. Vague (4)

12. Help (6)

14. Ship’s flag (6)

15. Looked after (6) 17. Accident (6)

18. Costly (4)

19. An excess of words (8) 21. Imprecise (10) 22. Lodgings (4) DOWN 2. Belligerent (10) 3. Look after (4) 4. Optimistic (6) 5. Strongly dislike (6) 6. Accent (8)

7. Remain (4) 11. Veering (10) 13. Roundabout (8) 16. Eat greedily (6) 17. Deadly (6) 18. Platform (4) 20. Frozen (4)

Previous solution

Across: 1. Faints 5. Masked 9. Mosaic 10. Libels 11. Fine 12. Ensuring

14. Hectic 16. Ridges 19. Manpower 21. Late 22. Loosed 23. Sniped 24. Duress 25. Dodged.

Down: 2. Agonise 3. Nearest 4. Sacred cow 6. Adieu 7. Keening 8. Designs 13. Surprised 14. Humbled 15. Candour 17. Dallied 18. Extreme

20. Opens.