The Hindu Crossword 7198

Across

 1 Trial bore fails for rescuer (9)
 5 A little note in German please (5)
 8 Learning place for a group of fish (6)
 9 It holds down the carpet on a flight (5,3)
11 School gives points to cover returned book (4)
12 Bloomer of one without a dancing partner (4,6)
14 Open to view in a studio vertically built (5)
15 Produced eggs in a pad with all four points dispersed (7)
16 Lama, could be, he is beat covering a wager (7)
17 Score from a nick (5)
19 To achieve, M.P. has c'coil unravelled (10)
20 Do some carving and so forth? Hard (4)
22 Brain too is agitated by miscarriage (8)
23 Puts the finishing touch to items of top royal cover (6)
24 Joint split in a tank left to rust (5)
25 A handgunner, say, and correspondent (9)

Down

 1 Pioneer of antiseptic method of surgery (6)
 2 Through one means or another, cook-book by Rohry is torn apart (2,4,2,2,5)
 3 Othello, maybe, goes up in space (4)
 4 Lack of compassion hurts senses: learner is dismayed (12)
 5 Gemstones shining brightly on head of state (10)
 6 Accept defeat in disrupted, hot, wet winter holiday, losing one day (5,2,3,5)
 7 What cannot be cured is to be treated thus (7)
10 Play in this manner to behave in an insincere manner (4,3,5)
13 Short measure in recent time adjustment (10)
16 In her mantua Tara found a lizard-like reptile (7)
18 Drink for a pursuer (6)
21 Child gets support with a bit of tea (4)

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