ACROSS
1 Kept down South and up with
the others, say (10)
6 Manage to produce the same
again (4,2)
9 A creature for Spanish model
without one (8)
10 Elgar’s lost article
in wicked European city (8)
11 Great literary character
gets by with a vowel change (6)
12 Rolls in 11 time an’
time again – such a pest! (8)
14 Occasional Mercian ruler
beginning to nark academic (3,3,2)
16 Revolutionary year: incite
great heat and rough stuff! (8)
19 Star in question tries
to change (8)
21 Quixotic ruler’s
bombast (6)
22 Country lass follows 15
(8)
23 Flier finds Bond's boss
in Josip Broz’s employment (8)
24 Stick in the North could,
so to speak, start to work (6)
25 Embellish lousy dregs again
(10)
DOWN
1 Thus Natasha has sadly missed
a musical work (6)
2 Edgar Allan keeps quiet
for His Holiness (4)
3 Singular talent shown by
German raised in Split (4,4)
4 How Baden-Powell was looking
to get the drinks in? (8,6)
5 Footballing legend from
22ac heard you say “BO” (7)
7 Swear one in with love for
a city in 22ac (6)
8 Greenbaum’s field
marshal merging forces (7,7)
13,17 Controversial ice-skater
improved night anyroad (5,7)
15 A deviation on the sinister
side (4,4)
17 See 13
18 Having a will without top
property (6)
20 Three times table hardly
required in child’s education initially (6)
22 Fairy serving up some Yorkshire
pudding (4)