CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Fever causing one alarm before a conclusion is reached (7)

5. Prestige counting for nothing in the gathering dusk (5)

8. With correct reasoning, go and call one out (7)

9. Now one could start giving it due (5) 10. Is to miss having lad around, getting the sack (9)

12. A letter to drive off from (3) 13. Weary way one used to get dressed (5) 17. Some familiar kind of craft made of wood (3)

19. The marked style in arms men put out (9)

21. The smallest amount that can turn stale (5)

22. Physical examination it is claimed is wrong (7)

24. Sort of material that may be seen in flow (5)

25. One could add, deer are held in horror (7)

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1. Illness that is allowed to surround a youngster (6)

2. Those who know the law, for example, in catalogues (7)

3. Turned limo over to the drivers' club (1,1,1)

4. The range of maps held in it (5) 5. Learning how to make old keg new (9) 6. It is a tendency to go with the current (5)

7. It makes an impression that will sound like a young bird (6)

11. Gave a hint of being close with the duke (9)

14. Showed how it could end vice (7) 15. Secret vote for a formal dance to be put up (6)

16. Seemed pleased to have made about fifty dimes (6)

18. Jack takes King at the centre of the wheel (5)

20. One wandering tribesman might do man out of it (5)

23. It is owed to two players who haven't finished (3) ▶ Friday's solution Across 1. Crimp 4. Grommet 8. Niche 9. Blossom 10. Rim 11. Tolerance 12. Dark 13. Plea 18. Crinoline 20. Bee 21. Imitate 22. Beret 23. Neglect 24. Royal Down 1. Contradiction 2. Incomer 3. Plenty 4. Gobble 5. Odours 6. Meson 7. Temperamental 14. Liberty 15. Potage 16. Direct 17. Member 19. Icing