Across
1 Sportspeople seeing injuries including leaderless crew, flailing rowers (13)
8 Wise men heading off for a long time (4)
9 Renunciation of stinking acrid slime (10)
10 Single knitted item? Beguiled? Not originally (6)
11 Cheap Italian novelist with no means to be heard (8)
12 Digitally alter, very quietly, attractive ‘outsize’ host — not half, that’s accepted (9)
14 A little busy, the French hotel; nothing to write home about(4)
15 Witnesses hijack, reportedly (4)
16 Extremely professorial tenor, most insipid (9)
20 A cop went to resort city on Atlantic (4,4)
21 Some vicar, uselessly tragic figure (6)
23 A grandpa (‘Pop’), shortly tipsy, offering misinformation (10)
24 Somewhat shamefaced, keeling over where drinks are served (4)
25 What the King’s men did: failed (4,2,3,4)
Down
1 Amusing Western, A Horse Is Hot (7)
2 Composer’s catalogue in the auditorium (5)
3 Delivering ‘second-to-last’ finales (7)
4 Poor tenant was wont to be thrifty (5,3,4,3)
5 Very old (50), solider heads north to find accommodation there (6)
6 Those on the Corinthian omnibus? (3,6)
7 Like ABBA? Like a turnip? (7)
13 Subsequently, the Scripture lessons at university in progress (9)
15 Little singer to squabble repeatedly (7)
17 Everyman’s flipping furious in far-off land? (7)
18 Heartfelt lines describing fine uniform following small change (7)
19 Believed unpleasant smell that’s disgusting lost at last(6)
22 African capital city reaching Atlantic, for starters? (5)
