
ACROSS
7 Played a role all over Delaware, toupee provided (7)
8 Old city gripped by mega-torrent and cattle plague (7)
9 3 down taking little time out for studies (4)
10 Assemble performance target nightly with retrospective sampling (9)
12 Annoyed Supreme leader’s predecessor? (5)
13 Target for one in union is to speak more frankly (8)
15 Chances slim for selfism (4)
16 Woman enthralling Irish county (5)
17 Ace backing for space (4)
18 Confused scene captured by monitor formerly showing Turkish power
(8)
20 Little chap springing forward – or not (5)
21 Oddly calmer after military unit secures leader of UKIP in cell (9)
22 Parrot to cut hair (4)
24 Discovered in plaza, Russian who was brought back to life, we’re told (7)
25 Woman’s belt is silver darling (7)
DOWN
1 Poet’s festival requires experimental diet (4)
2 Stick with Oxford’s detectives? (8)
3 Dybbuks, content to become wicked (6)
4 Skirt on old film star inspiring affection (8)
5 One’s reportedly soothed by music once savage animal has eaten Queen (6)
6 Long number between two transcendentals (4)
11 “High Court” – is it full of people tripping? (9)
12 Silence, darkness in the middle of a wood (5)
14 Old Norse official, both short and unsteady? (2-3)
16 In ghetto, sports copper mirror (8)
17 Photographers take Representative with bowl, after throwing up aboard ship
(8)
19 Dash starkers – out of religious sentiment, originally? (6)
20 Mechanical engineer’s life ends at sea notably, funds firstly withdrawn
(6)
21 Gamble with a hundred on court matter (4)
23 Mercenary’s not very upstanding, in a public way (4)
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