WEE THINKER

Across

1 About musical furniture (5) 4 Girl has fashionable fruit (7) 8 Gauged tree flourishing in sea (7) 9 Superior part of a shoe (5) 10 Staring round sailor (3) 11 Returned to chase away pains (9) 13 Lack of new thread (6) 14 New maids left sad (6) 17 Environmental space for actors (5,4) 19 Recognise the bishop’s seat (3) 21 Rents out birds (5) 23 People knotting lace and shreds (7) 24 Judge America left in denial (7) 25 Backed team on the day (5)

Down

1 Arrive on time to see heavenly body (5) 2 Learnt tea was forced to change (9) 3 Unusual part of Welsh dish? (7) 4 Cut down on terribly crude energy (6) 5 Lots of steam initially scalded a woman (5) 6 Trendy joint (3) 7 Soldiers only left in the shade (7) 12 Hated maps about urban village (9) 13 Follow celebrity seen in the sky (3,4) 15 It’s mean to upset felons (7) 16 Human molar cracked with temperature (6) 18 Sent away to second homes (5) 20 Stopped without starting, relaxed (5) 22 Briefly a judge? (3)