Sport No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A themed (Sport) standard puzzle: 28 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. Car tearing along — a spectator sport (5,6)
7. Tea, reportedly, is a golf ball's perch (3)
9. Try to place in the throwing event (4,3)
10. Exclusive set, reportedly, to catch on (5)
12. Man about to be present (4)
13. Doctor drinking whisky is less wet (5)
16. Ship loaded with junk shows the figures (5)
19. Song from one breeze coming back (4)
22. Drunks taking in fifty one-armed bandits (5)
23. Excited Adrian, having time, is beaming (7)
24. Wood found in a shed (3)
25. Undertakings: one goes in and levers open (11)

Down

1. Fixture that gives a light (5)
2. Belonging to them? Time for the successor! (5)
3. Chance that irks terribly (4)
4. Steer clear of a vacuum (5)
5. Suggest my lip is out of shape (5)
6. Argot developed by a swamp predator (5)
8. Energy stirred a Celt to vote in (5)
11. Small coin for the leaders of Chelsea, Everton, Newcastle and Tottenham (4)
14. Royal losing gravity becomes genuine (4)
15. Revises poorly planned diets (5)
16. Sergeant, to his men, crashing gears (5)
17. German car with time for an inspection (5)
18. Sitar smashed on a step (5)
20. Ways bars have of admitting one (5)
21. Cinders make up a cricket prize (5)
22. Commotion in the nick (4)

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