Standard No. 1 — cryptic crossword

A 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. Snap ending in a result too close to call (5,6)
7. Unhappy part of this adventure (3)
9. Caps set out badly for several sides (7)
10. A million going into trade gives off an odour (5)
12. Continental currency for a dissolute roue (4)
13. Drays smashed up in the enclosures (5)
16. Veers wildly into poetry (5)
19. Refusal to be working at midday (4)
22. Wait to start a rally (5)
23. Diet act reformed to lay down the law (7)
24. Insect to be heard (3)
25. Rises in value as Cape pirates get lost (11)

Down

1. Search party poses awkwardly (5)
2. Frontier abandoned by bishop for a religious community (5)
3. Lesson losing its head is spoken (4)
4. Suggest that I'm a layer (5)
5. Fashionable dog to bring on oneself (5)
6. Great numbers of shots mixed (5)
8. A source of inspiration to entertain (5)
11. Behold a ship in defeat (4)
14. Expert taking in new spots (4)
15. Steered a herd of cattle (5)
16. Vicar of Dibley kept apologising, primarily for the spirit (5)
17. One setting the pace turns back to summarise (5)
18. Rub out king held in comfort (5)
20. Sphere with sex appeal makes a circuit (5)
21. Requirements of one who kneads, reportedly (5)
22. House in the last four (4)

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