ACROSS
..9...Furnish and arrange Ruth’s pole. (9)
10...Money man gets into a state. (5)
11 17.Hair, possibly, donated by 7 25 8. (7,8)
12...Scarlet distributed in pub ruler. (7)
13...Letters move quickly up the points. (5)
14...People strip — and the Fleet surround a boy. (9)
16...Antonio’s Italian translated becomes a political issue! (15)
19...Confirming that the Tyrian fig is fertilised. (9)
21...Many come back for former wife’s praise. (5)
22...Bank is more comprehensible. (7)
23...See 20D.
24...Stage with strings perhaps. (5)
25...Martyr has Home Counties defence, we hear. (9)
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DOWN
..1...Brain serum is needed for this periscoper. (10)
..2...Old joke about body parts. (8)
..3...Faces a number of ringlets. (6)
..4...Dead rising, etc. (2,2)
..5...Wimp expiring about river is not pressed. (4,6)
..6...State of 11. (8)
..7...The gospel about article reveals name of a European ... (6)
..8...... who leaves the seaside to dynast. (4)
14...Copier of the Gala spirit. (10)
15...Sign Lionel for the weekends! (4,3-3)
17...Discordant note played by band’s submission. (8)
18...Countersunk die twists ligation. (8)
20 23A.Supplied by 7 25 8. (3,3,2,5)
21...Flow from expletive to exploit. (6)
22...Green-blue can accept unknown quantity. (4)
24...Eyes the disarranged monks. (4)
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