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Across
- 7. Slight hesitation to return, a tiny bit (6)
- 8. Shepherd to follow blindly? (5,3)
- 9. Morally corrupt, refined circles extremely afraid (8)
- 10. Amplify without bringing in new stuff (6)
- 11. Representative of jealousy in love? On the contrary (5)
- 12. Again match fixing? (6)
- 14. Lords and ladies kept in jail, putsch violently uprooting society (4-2-3-6)
- 17. Haughty parrot maintaining empty drivel (6)
- 18. Saw broad agenda enclosed (5)
- 22. Annoyed, runs inside cave (6)
- 23. If this shakes about scarily at the sides, it's wobbly (5,3)
- 24. Intensely biting cold, expecting crowded motorway (8)
- 25. 6 can be 12 in this (6)
Down
- 1. Endless toll gates turning inward (9)
- 2. King Edward setting an example for Murphy (6)
- 3. No chance of excitement when fellow's normal (5)
- 4. Shot a politician revealing explosive stuff (8)
- 5. Edited material avoiding bias, essentially without retracting work in material (8)
- 6. Buffet's pen (5)
- 8. Show full commitment, try hard, turn up on time, cut inconsistency (2,3,5,3)
- 13. Foolish and smug, in short, died suffering (9)
- 15. Back to back misfortune, mite stupid to hang around (4,4)
- 16. Heaped scorn as one introduced stupid condition (8)
- 19. The most prominent party sure to keep neutral (6)
- 20. Instrument brought up on U-boat (5)
- 21. Tie when it finally keeps firm (5)
