Harry Potter No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Harry Potter) 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. Places options to sell (4)
4. Harry's godfather upset us, Iris (6)
8. Tipsy oldie reeling (5)
9. Fashionable holding company's symbol (4)
10. Some tablet halves are deadly (6)
11. Pass a soft drink (4)
12. Needle, with time out, gives relief (4)
14. Left sumo wrestling for a bright spell (5)
15. Slump turned round? Hot air! (3)
16. Harry's rival's party interrupted by breakdown service (5)
17. Part of the work needs a joint (4)
18. Henry, in the can, is slim (4)
20. Fire up with gin, tie askew (6)
21. Trees originally on all Kent slopes (4)
23. Build Crete anew (5)
24. Darren's out on a job (6)
25. Sharp cry at a wake (4)

Down

1. Hedge by the road where Harry grew up (6,5)
2. Also shown in photo online (3)
3. Seeing son in the church (5)
4. Flog a room in Azkaban, we hear (4)
5. Ladies dancing to standards (6)
6. Monstrous in person (7)
7. Rep reorganised spare lesson (11)
13. Radar device to survey north-east river (7)
15. Understood ten were acquired in America (6)
17. Run down and rap at the door (5)
19. Crowd listened, by the sound of it (4)
22. Dined when arrival time was put back (3)

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