Games & Pastimes No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Games & Pastimes) standard puzzle: 29 clues on a 11×11 grid. Solve it online — check your answers as you go, ask for a hint, and read how each clue works once it is solved.

Across

1. Fuel for the fire? Eye make-up, by the sound of it (4)
4. Partners' game is where the captain stands (6)
8. Small bird with the French name (5)
9. Leon returns for Christmas (4)
10. Dead to the world? Please roll over (6)
11. Long hidden store, unopened (4)
12. English picture on a grand scale (4)
14. Innocent one in the body of the church (5)
15. Model initially stands in tableau (3)
16. Temperature elevated in upper leg (5)
17. Matures for a long time (4)
18. Uproar as trio falls out (4)
20. Work with ticket seller to leave the scheme (3,3)
21. Loud, unruly board game (4)
23. Started to ask for a name (5)
24. Car sent back by doctrine of prejudice (6)
25. Boss breaks down and weeps (4)

Down

1. Join the quartet for a game of dropping discs (7,4)
2. Dined in private (3)
3. Some Nepali lace in pale purple (5)
4. Dismissive cry about line of waffle (4)
5. Begrudge rent swallowing the South-East (6)
6. Editing freely, cutting calories (7)
7. Phrases from former reporters on charged particles (11)
13. Me, a detective with nothing but a twitch? Absurd (7)
15. Quiet massages for plants (6)
17. Map book at last nearly finished (5)
19. Met one, turning into a couple (4)
22. Card game for one in Rome (3)

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