Wordwheel

ACROSS

1. Lies close and snug in net less awkwardly (7)

5. The first in order to give one a preliminary charge (5)

8. A finish put to bad humour by artist’s medium (7)

9. Don’t have, at the end of the day, to be poor (5)

10. The prudence with which one finds the bead on the muzzle (9)

12. A trite quotation for a children’s game (3)

13. How strange to be an extraterrestrial! (5)

17. Roman house god was not quite fat (3)

19. Seen to be Eve, priced out of it (9)

21. Two half-dozens for an old penny, and very colourful (5)

22. Lets gin get spilt, and it will shine wetly (7)

24. But they cause no tears to the landlords (5)

25. Messes about with machine pot-menders (7)

DOWN

1. Tell authority if Tony goes wrong (6)

2. Japanese warrior gives one a rum as it’s distributed (7)

3. Sleet ends off on the sheltered side (3)

4. Vocalised about Latin in argot (5)

5. Pain for sin shown by niece, pent in such a way (9)

6. It is futile for the writer to turn up within it (5)

7. There is no grey variety of sea-holly (6)

11. Makes the herd run off to speed mast production (9)

14. Whole-hearted fan may have voted for the East twice (7)

15. Adore to be in credit while living in it (6)

16. Said no perhaps to a handsome youth (6)

18. Bird given a classic greeting in the Navy (5)

20. On the Conservative side it is correct (5)

23. Where barristers’ chambers are, in certain neighbourhoods (3)

Insert the missing letter to complete an eight-letter word reading clockwise or anti-clockwise.

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IPrevious solution: STRANDED