Across
1
A complete shambles, maybe setter’s to be given time out, quick! (4,9)
8
Primarily, extremely meddlesome matchmaker (Austen’s) (4)
9
Acerbic Greek character can provide pudding (5,5)
10
Altogether where Dorothy’s dog food ended up (2,4)
11
'Blah blah blah': review of 48 Hours? (4-4)
12
Parliamentarian to persecute revolutionary, Spooner reports (9)
14
Perhaps, Sergeant Major, perhaps (4)
15
Famous sportsman, ‘The Greatest’ (4)
16
Stride around shopping centre making chit-chat (5,4)
20
Print pitch for pigeonhole (8)
21
Dicky Benaud is one going from Vienna to Belgrade (6)
23
Horror-movie figure harshly bullies a headless dog (4,6)
24
Lawyer’s not finishing cheese (4)
25
Furniture that might be rust-proofed and extremely baroque? (4-6,3)
Down
1
Tenor spotted piece to include: grand! (7)
2
Some ragù: a nourishing substance with distinctive smell (5)
3
Promise to put a wager on US novelist (7)
4
Parliamentary business, one May's adroitly amended (5,3,7)
5
Prepares sourdough loaves, perhaps: essential things (we’re told) (6)
6
Nasty coat needing alteration, no matter the price (2,3,4)
7
Sick, tired, essentially stoned ... considered fit (5,2)
13
A fortune’s laid out for horror movie (9)
15
Piece of Laurel and Hardy finally, a fable that’s funny (7)
17
‘Salud!’, dit Emile (un peu reactionary) (7)
18
Tried to influence bid with bloke losing £1,000, sadly (7)
19
Adjudicator, curtly, after brief look, to increase price unfairly (6)
22
Bigwig to apprehend rising pong (5)