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Cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1. One with built-in baby-carriage gives Saul one pram anyhow (9) 5. Measure of resistance shown in returning from holiday (3) 7. Umbrella used as monsoon starts in the interval (4)

8. Old things are quite awkward in the short answer (8)

10. Rot a cup with a fruit that fertilises itself (8)

11. Chapter head, loose end, and confusion (4)

13. Wrap up a headless chicken with the enclosure (6)

15. A suture may cause runner some discomfort (6)

18. Keep it so secret at night (4)

19. Passage or Doric order put right at the end (8)

22. Looks red, so should shun glib version of it (8)

23. A sentence in a biography, say (4)

24. A ligature may get worn under the collar (3)

25. It puts one off deer, seeing them upsetting Trent (9)

DOWN

1. Man of power married on the father’s side (7)

2. Send the money for terms of reference (5)

3. Set aside one rig for developmen­t (6)

4. Place to lie for fibber with internal upset (4)

5. Having a smell of inclusion of back-up for the wealthy (7) 6. See me and my boy make a sub-atomic particle (5) 9. Rebuke one at first sneeze with catarrhal infection (5)

12. The tale of building a floor, one is told (5)

14. How to get fern out – but it takes a lot of money (7) 16. About five hearts used to gather in (7)

17. A sub-lieutenant in a military band perhaps (6)

18. Sum owing to young woman coming out with sex appeal (5) 20. The impulsive force of a batsman’s stroke (5) 21. Provided with footwear in exchange for dosh (4)

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