CLUES No. 1124

ACROSS:

1. Cruel as could be if not religious (7)

5. Hooded coat to keep out the cold in a park. (5)

8. Great odium. (5)

9. Name and shame. (4,3)

10. Amends, expiation. (7)

11. Alternative musical passage which may be substituted for the original passage. (5)

12. Draw back, as with fear or pain. (6)

14. Legal statement of grievance. (6)

17. The sum of all other parts. (5)

19. There’s rot in the cart so the farmer uses this instead. (7)

22. Most desirable possible under a restriction expressed or implied. (7)

23. All above board and within the law. (5)

24. Exhausted after busting all the resources? (5)

25. Bear act arranged for entertainment. (7)

DOWN:

1. Pry officiously. (5)

2. Italian table wine, originally put up in straw-covered bottles. (7)

3. Citric fruit is also a disappointing used car. (5)

4. A toothed bar with which a pawl engages to permit movement in one direction only. (6)

5. Saturated vegetable fat (4,3)

6. Noisy violent public disorder displays. (5)

7. Entice, allure, draw toward oneself. (7)

12. Smugly foolish. (7)

13. Peace pipe of the Native Americans. (7)

15. Whole number not a fraction. (7)

16. Typeface with letters slanting upward to the right. (6)

18. Let it be seen that I am knighted. (5)

20. At one’s pleasure; without restriction. (5)

21. Reignited the fire. (5)