CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across 1. 5. 8. 9. 10. 12. 13. 17. 19. 21. 22. 24. 25. Down 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 11. 14. 15. 16. 18. 20. 23.

Fisticuffs occur with party drink being more expensive (5-2) He refuses to conform out of pure belligerence (5) Reparation for damage sustained by dresser (7)

The impudence of the chap! (5)

Broken reed Tory’s made of fighting craft (9)

Family of the sort that’s unfinished (3)

Use foil if you wish to handle hot stuff (5)

A rustic may cook on it (3)

Turn out woman perhaps to attune to it (9)

It won’t sink the milk-cart (5)

It will give one a boost to have it under one’s pillow (7) Give out or give in, if you touch it (5)

Easing of relations netted some change with the East (7)

It sends up a revolver in the wages (6) Naturists one dusts in error (7)

Hurry along and get horse to turn left (3) Self-assertive, but retiring after getting back-up (5) It keeps coming back about the electricity supply (9) Slow down, one is told, at play-time (5)

A partiality for the link GI forged (6)

Thought back on what the Mirror did (9)

Canes may hit one less but still punish (7)

Being evasive, will move at end of May (6)

What graduand is getting for 60 geographical miles (6) Having no money, went bust (5)

Was receding to be up on part of the garden (5) The French tennis no. 1’s net call (3) 12/1