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Across
- 7. Ruling queen on a bottled drink (6)
- 8. Snake, to wit, term yielding traitor, primarily (3-5)
- 9. 16 in England and a saint? Nonsense (4,4)
- 10. Pupils admitted in institute essentially (6)
- 11. Savages in reclaimed ghetto controlling area (5)
- 12. Blot on society, slander say, in retrospect (6)
- 14. Women's bash — they debate showers to celebrate new arrival (3,3,5,4)
- 17. Old ass without energy or wildcat? (6)
- 18. Disciplinary power being very easily corrupted (5)
- 22. Iron fist ultimately used in state security (6)
- 23. No chance to act at West End in London (8)
- 24. Sambar for one, very thoughtful (8)
- 25. New school books (6)
Down
- 1. Explosive latent, blasting cap does this (9)
- 2. Full skirt, navy, stocked by finished length (6)
- 3. Lawyer with guts, in fact (5)
- 4. Dished inside out, toothy rogue, seen in Tom and Jerry for instance (3,5)
- 5. Golden tin periodically placed here? (8)
- 6. Throw one of this and die for this figure (5)
- 8. I know right and wrong to be ultimately baseless (4,2,5,2)
- 13. Yes, a wall to be built on Mexico's border — why not? (3,2,4)
- 15. Groom to help at home? Then one in couple normally set to row (8)
- 16. Anonymous underwriter tipped to cover extremely ordinary person (8)
- 19. Dine, raving over shelled ingredient in salad (6)
- 20. Done for retired neighbour, extremely urgent (5)
- 21. Get normal in prison (5)
