Across
1 Dubious sort with alcoholic drink on platform (7)
5 Let off surplus dynamite, initially (6)
9 Splendour of Greek article under bust (8)
10 Joined one editor (6)
12 Head leaving specimen, more than enough (5)
13 Around five, alkie and a TT uncommonly chatty (9)
14 New French calendar? (13)
16 Soon converted a lone militant (2,2,4,2,3)
20 Getting bitter with money for bread (9)
21 Fish steak prepared (5)
22 Doctor returning to northern college (6)
23 Decidedly fashionable black suit (2,6)
24 Attractive young girls with special ability (6)
25 Bird in box by bank (7)
Down
1 Newspaper left on top of an overcoat (6)
2 Holiday-maker holding up small scuttle (7)
3 Dickens character, impolite penning note (5)
4 Rise to heaven, the home of the greater gods (5,7)
6 Writers having a drink in a US city (9)
7 Tins are wrong for a wine (7)
8 Daughter, having drunk rye after rum, becomes unsteady (7)
11 One-armed bandits – lost cash in ‘em, stupidly (4,8)
15 After surprising veto duke’s dejected, defeated in the House (5,4)
16 Awareness, in a sense (7)
17 Grey gear? (7)
18 Depend on the German rowing club (7)
19 Watch cutter pitch (6)
21 Wild ape is a brownish colour (5)
