Special, Sunday 19 May 2019, K Koteswar Rao

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
7   What a pity! Kickback today (3,3)
8   Weapon manufacturer is a second grade nameless griever (8)
9   Natural response not initially audible, recording note (8)
10 Departure of old flame on frequent holdouts (6)
11 Thick impressions reportedly (5)
12 Criticism about struggle with West (6)
14 An economic trend? Perhaps it isn't my business (1,2,3,9)
17 Toy or Troy on pillage? (6)
18 Hatred upset Modi upfront (5)
22 Extract the essence by boiling in two months? (6)
23 Make public well near church – It is subject to country’s jurisdiction (8)
24 Observe what follows when half the energy is spent with stick around (4,4)
25 Get the better of clothes changing from/to wife (6)

DOWN
1   Look before you leap out of barge panel to get at the watering-hole (6,3)
2   Mammal in rising ocean sinks (6)
3   Hooked adjunct but no joint (5)
4   He may not remember misalliance, not ill-treatment (8)
5   Contest fought without husband ferociously on green revolution (3-2-3)
6   Primate bird in the middle of both sides. (5)
8   Actively engaged when coach left a tea dance (2,3,8)
13 Creature in the main ancient city’s feature (3,6)
15 Abstract subject has no answer for Oscar (8)
16 Perhaps prime time, neither is at fault (8)
19 Place, place inside flower (6)
20 Record breaking dowry in store (5)
21 The sound of speed measured by volume and space (5)

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Enjoy.