Cryptic Crossword

Both sets of clues fit both grids

ACROSS

1 A rule audibly put on trial (7) 5 Caught leg in ascent (5)

8 Last rites written on wood or bone (5) 9 Film success, or disaster (7)

10 European hurrying, loosely speaking! (7) 11 Bits of belt overturned (5)

12 Pink-eyed animal seen through practical binoculars (6)

14 Reserve player is expected to conquer (6) 18 Tree adornment quite lacking length (5)

20 Hoodlum wrecks tombs with some hesitation (7) 22 Man, at one, wants Indian bread (7)

23 A large room set up for God (5)

24 Type of saw held by Pete? No, Nigel (5) 25 Test arranged by boy in cowboy hat (7)

DOWN

1 Al’s away from Oz country (7) 2 Ring leader helps with the attacks (5)

3 Be entering tax office with Scotsman or Southern European (7)

4 Observing that a bell’s faulty? (6) 5 Distressed copper upset plonk (3,2) 6 Passed over eroding rocks (7) 7 Supports those defending (5) 13 Country has it in mind (7) 15 Wild rumba, eg, causes offence (7)

16 Strange ant here made of clay (7) 17 A smile troubled correspondence (6) 18 Confront the opening aspect (5)

19 Long time before start of night (5) 21 Bounds over left of slabs (5)