No 2698, Sunday 05 Aug 12

ACROSS
1   - Crazy, me, about a Frenchwoman (6) - MADAME {MAD}{A}{ME}
4   - Make a mistake rotating students (4,2) - SLIP UP <-
8   - Huge movie (7) - TITANIC [DD]
10 - A series under discussion (2,5) - AN ISSUE [DD]
11 - Name old-fashioned puzzle (4,6) - WORD SQUARE {WORD} {SQUARE}
12 - Gorilla may be hot on board vessel (4) - THUG {T{H}UG}
14  - No North Sea oil? That's confused naval man (7,6) - HORATIO NELSON*
16 - Training on second musical instrument, a fiddle? (5,8) - SHARP PRACTICE {S}{HARP} {PRACTICE}
18 - A stake in Italian tearoom (4) - ANTE [T]
19 - They may be put on for the rest of the train travellers in France, perhaps (6-4) - WAGONS-LITS [CD]
22 - Trendy type seen round hotel, briefly (2,5) - IN SHORT {IN} {S{H}ORT}
23 - Inform editor, surprisingly acute (7) - EDUCATE {ED}{ACUTE*}
24 - Good parties for French wine (6) - GRAVES {G}{RAVES}
25 - Small number crossing river, British one (6) - SEVERN {SEVE{R}N}
DOWN
1   - Record label millions love, tenor's first to admit (6) - MOTOWN {M}{O}{T}{OWN}

2   - Put off cleaner gent jilted (5) - DETER DETERgent
3   - Handwritten document, with tear, kept in blessed sanctum (10) - MANUSCRIPT {MANUSC{RIP}T*}
5   - Hideaway left warm and dry (4) - LAIR {L}{AIR}
6   - Model that's changed inside as fast as possible (9) - POSTHASTE {POS{THAT"S*}E}
7   - Drama in gym - gentry involved (4,4) - PEER GYNT {PE}{ER GYNT*}
9   - Opposite number's bar role (11) - COUNTERPART {COUNTER}{PART}
10 - Film a number entertaining Irish press (3,5,3) - AIR FORCE ONE {A}{IR} {FORCE} {ONE}
13 - Novelist in infamous bar in the north-east (5,5) - NEVIL SHUTE {N{EVIL} {SHUT}E}
14 - Hospital in the Alps, newly-built with a fitness centre (6,3) - HEALTH SPA {HEALT{H} SP*}{A}
15 - Evaluating a small saw (8) - ASSAYING {A}{S}{SAYING}
17 - Behind adult not inclined to leniency (6) - ASTERN {A}{STERN}
20 - Crazy discarding spades? Senseless (5) - INANE INsANE
21 - Solid fuel all right in church (4) - COKE {C{OK}E}