Wednesday 28 October

Across

9 Plenty of cake in a musical get-together (9) 10 Senior school deregulated trousers (5) 11 Higher education growth is a fabulous thing! (7) 12 Wrongly copies change of direction in exercise system (7) 13 It’s a shame setter’s embraced another name (5) 14 Flags in street with a red design sagging on the left (9) 16 Whimsically enlarge court? (7,8) 19 Criminal case bound for minister (9) 21 Ruin success (5) 22 City outing ending in Chicago Illinois held back (7) 23 Mike is laidback – wrong call! (7) 24 Shade that’s needed to get vehicle started, some say (5) 25 Fruit drink reportedly sticky mixture in middle of keg (9)

Down

1 Fuel easy conversation (7,3) 2 Trickster replacing silver with American player (8) 3 Extremely old acknowledgements of debt causing hatred (6) 4 A negative response in Europe immediately for Shakespeare (4) 5 Maintain use of computer keys and monitor (4,4,2) 6 Order pig, cooked for breakfast? (8) 7 At last, requisite identification returned to right section chief (6) 8 Current regularly drains plant (4) 14 Doctor to license special extracts (10) 15 Declare items found on the beach gathered for island state (10) 17 Eloquent talk from initially righteous ambassador to wealthy cut short (8) 18 Joyous rhythm leads to irrepressible feeling in choir (8) 20 Book free case of alcohol for wedding (6) 21 Picked up small bag for excursion (6) 22 Appropriate opinion (4) 23 Staff inspired by workplace camaraderie coming back (4)