Across
6
Sport, an energy-filled fight (4)
7
Jam pot’s first in hamper (5)
8
Half a ball missing in match (4)
9
Postwar children pack large underclothes (8)
10
Festival you will shortly open getting closer (6)
11
I’m surprised, eating cereal, it sticks to the chin (6)
13
I censor a depraved plot summary (8)
14
Lecturer gives this pain, to secure first in Italian (9)
18
For Linnaeus, say, maggot active isn’t bad (8)
19
Learnt about income from property (6)
20
Book Month: nothing surpasses a good book (6)
21
New love in the far north for a number? (8)
23
Turning stomachs, dirty talk (4)
24
Young swimmer constantly circling lake (5)
25
Answer by half the people, or all of them (4)
Down
1
One composer and another shortly visiting down under (7)
2
In life, king’s vigour (4)
3
Not happy about one having to mount platform (4)
4
Mayfly makes border in record time (8)
5
A short whisky say at noon that dulls the pain (7)
7
Taking afternoon off, make for island (5)
8
Time to cut down forest for first book in series (3,6)
12
Scold shedding a tear over Trump’s policy, something biblical (9)
13
Shorebird from the pole (5)
15
Attempted murderer maybe has a bit of respect for one old lag (8)
16
Vain man from Apple for one with tidy hair (7)
17
Scientist forced to lie long ago: no good coming out of that (7)
19
For Aristotle and Euclid to appear from the start among elements of basic education is not so normal (5)
21
Its journey being through Russian city, one van avoiding periphery (4)
22
Why Norwegian king can’t relieve himself? (4)