Try our cryptic crossword

ACROSS

1 Distance across loaf, the end is cut (7)

5 Discard, not initially, then throw out (5)

9 Bird could be evocative when I’ve left (6)

10 Well-mannered European swallows it (6)

11 First of runners entering dog track (5)

12 To ply relatives with questions is a feature of Halloween (7)

14 Going up again, big increase in housing charge (9)

18 No French flip pans constantly (3-4)

20 Purchased despite having no time at branch (5)

22 Texan ad usually includes poetic location (6)

23 Conviction for putting large one in meat (6)

24 Rips off back-row pieces (5)

25 Keep trying to remove stripes (7)

DOWN

2 Respect always held by Engineers (6)

3 Attribute to a writer (7)

4 Gallery located in some estates (4)

6 Frenchman changing from small to soft drink (5)

7 Flower of the moggy family? (6)

8 Pay out freely for place in stream (7)

13 TV presenter’s idiot board on which traffic jam is heard (7)

15 Asian dish and lots from north (7)

16 A motto about fruit (6)

17 Some progressive monster (6)

19 Bag containing new fast food (5)

21 Instrument used in Old English outside broadcast first (4)