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ACROSS
7 Middle letters from birdbrains I'd eliminate (6)
8 Returning last minute, accepting present? It's fine (8)
9 Rated settlement? (8)
10 Lewd flier cycling around a liberal (6)
11 So, this state broadcast rubs police? (8)
12 Maxim and Carol circling a yard (6)
13 Beyond doubt, I register popular name at first (11)
18 Every now and then they answer to China (3,3)
20 Assist old boyfriend with exercise and fluid diet (8)
22 Steer clear of unlimited mess, aches? Eww! (6)
23 Keep pace with components in vintage Qualis engines (8)
24 Skin inflammations from contaminated buns and pots (8)
25 Rodents returned in house I vacated (6)
DOWN
1 Hide! Harsh breathing sound's smothering king Lear at first (7)
2 Catch daughter with boy? Can lead to this irritating condition (8)
3 Move back from extremely repulsive snake (6)
4 Is parent over maid's allure? (8)
5 German massage, extremely bawdy and seedy (6)
6 Sailor brought up bar's ladder (7)
8 Evict fans, exploited repeatedly for success? (13)
14 Chewed up raw donut? Unfortunate (8)
15 Lovely ad about honey (8)
16 Spooner exclaims: "Look at waste matter in nourishing food!" (3,4)
17 Stores scarves without original tags (7)
19 Persons of authority in New Delhi basically swaggering and haughty, intolerant, bossy,supercilious (6)
21 Bob covering head, follows Prince in attack (6)
10.ac. Ribald. Bird(flier) + a + l(iberal)
ReplyDelete22.ac. Eschew. M( es)s +a(che)s + e(w)w
23.ac. Equalise. (Vintag)e + qualis+ e(ngines)
24.ac. Sunburns. Buns+ urns(pots)
14.dn. Untoward. Rearranging letters from 'raw donut'.
23a equalise from vintagEQUALISEngines
ReplyDelete24 a sun burns from anagram of buns urns-pots
ReplyDelete25a cavies - rodents from houSE I VACated in reverse
ReplyDelete19D SAHIBS = persons of authority
ReplyDeleteAcrostic from Staggering ..... Supercillious
15D LADYLOVE = honey (Lovely ad)*
3down - Recoil ?
ReplyDelete7A INSIDE = middle -->Telescopic birdbra(ins I'd e)liminate
ReplyDelete7A. INSIDE ( birdbraINS I'D Eliminate)
ReplyDelete11 REPUBLIC (CA) (so+republic)* = (rubs police)
ReplyDelete8A Tradeoff
ReplyDeleteThis is typically a letterbank clue of (trade). This would refer to even settlement.
Although Settlement doesn't exactly mean trade off, since it is not compromise but a sort of completion.
It is 9A, not 8A. Also, this is not a letterbank clue. But the answer is right.
DeleteOk, typo (9A) is this then anagram?
Delete4D. Charisma ( charm, meaning attraction) from allure ( def)
ReplyDeleteIs+ parent (Ma and also Maid (m)
Parent over maid's ( Ma = mother, over means -m , and so 'a' remains)
Thus, is+charm+a= charisma
Is this possible annotation?