CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. One supposed to have done wrong, etc, Puss found out (7)

5. Move the troops to the border (5)

8. The largest penguin gets more per turn (7)

9. In a pool it represents a fixed amount of liquid (5)

10. It is a frugal way to invert pod (9)

12. An elaborate lyric Hood eventually included (3)

13. A heathen god who goes around Georgia (5)

17. If fitting tap, put its top last (3)

19. None is excluded by 12 – very confusing! (9)

21. Puzzle of it being a name in the picture business (5)

22. Old boy keeps arranging for it to be made to measure (7)

24. Tyre pattern which may be mis-rated (5)

25. How we fight the rest about the Left (7)

DOWN

1. Spy eel wriggling, even though it’s comatose (6)

2. Provisionally assume pea soup’s to be made without a mixture (7)

3. It can listen to only part of the argument (3)

4. A compact arrangement of trees (5)

5. Strenuous support of cause possibly can limit youth-leader (9)

6. The possible relation of air to the mixture (5)

7. Well, shoes may thus be repaired if one’s comfortably off (6)

11. It had a profound effect, one’s being forced into service (9)

14. Military police sort the troops out around five (7)

15. Vegetable enticement needed to oppose the stick (6)

16. There is hydrocarbon in a fruit-stone (6)

18. There is a list of figures for those sitting down to dine (5)

20. The Spanish archer’s weapon may be crooked (5)

23. Take court action up in the USA (3)