Across
9
The strange ring round battle site? That’s magic! (3,6)
10
Loiter a while by old church (5)
11
Posh cars? Amblers should avoid street (7)
12
Essential bits coming from officers listened to (7)
13
Woman more cagey, having had the edges knocked off (5)
14
Conceited American doing odd deal with Welsh (9)
16
She is one particular religious lady full of love meeting sex worker (8,7)
19
Old boxer maybe, one in the pulpit? (9)
21
Gay bishop emerging as sylphlike (5)
22
Hide no longer in west-coast state (7)
23
Ruined city with exaggerated style – one that is seen in retrospect (7)
24
Ancient city’s the reverse of elevated and not totally pleasant (5)
25
Part of descending flight said to make one overcome somehow (5,4)
Down
1
Poisonous fruit makes god sleep with aid not initially coming round (5,5)
2
Look at ship’s bit of ‘paint’? (8)
3
Cheeses, you may say, and a piece of cake (6)
4
Requests from idiot pinning king (4)
5
Reserve goalie, a record-holder (10)
6
American city has a stream seen in an instant (8)
7
Gathering round, revolutionary soldiers hold together (6)
8
The American putting off English so (4)
14
Look at naughty ladies, creating outrage (10)
15
Daughter on mountains with cat collected plants (10)
17
Top-class girl finally coming into old money and luxury (8)
18
He’d not to go off course at the exact time (2,3,3)
20
Writer that’s good, penning article in Asian state (6)
21
Pliant mountaineer maybe heading off (6)
22
‘Firm has sacked man’ – journalist’s submission to editor? (4)
23
Map showing lake in shallow depression (4)