Across
1 Novelist reviewing The Role of the Superego (4-9)
8 Pulse half missing, getting terribly cool (4)
9 Europe cast unfairly as ‘place lacking atmosphere’ (5,5)
10 French city declared bust (6)
11 What one familiar with Wagner does in audition, offering ornamentation (8)
12 Dumbly disrespect, ignoring old in favour of oneself (2,7)
14 Slight: ‘Trust in you? Not entirely’ (4)
15 Enthusiast with excellent muscle tone (4)
16 Spooner’s curious admirer delivers a kitchen utensil (6,3)
20 Nightingale in the city? (8)
21 Writer’s voice has sounds of hesitation (6)
23 Drunken harlot embraceth corrupted Zion, even (10)
24 I doubt that easy life is without limits (2,2)
25 Conservative journalist, grown up with Sun, made restitution (7,6)
Down
1 Baking has a sickly spread (7)
2 Unlovely cravat, in part-synthetic fibre (5)
3 Time learner’s invested in task? It’s a laugh (7)
4 I’ll give you that note (credit card’s declined) (1,5,9)
5 Crowd invasion when area lost by Liverpool striker (6)
6 That’s me off making a contribution (9)
7 Monkey around, affectedly impersonating Danny Dyer? (7)
13 Doomed to receive porcelain that’s leaking (9)
15 Labour: ‘Foot could be PM’ (7)
17 Shunning company around urinals (7)
18 Tentatively ask Iris to show affection (3-4)
19 Open, concealing nothing, unusually blunt (6)
22 At end of twelvemonth, Norse pine (5)
