January 2022 Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 Poetry lover selects excerpt (5)
• 4 Up there and off it! (4)
• 8 Laugh at idiot overshadowing a politician (7)
• 9 Jump over burial chamber (5)
• 10 Brown gecko skin to a T (5)
• 11 Ornamental flower bed in one of the Orkney islands (7)
• 13 Attacks because army is disembowelled by savage leader (6)
• 15 More straightforward if he ultimately gets a rise by mistake (6)
• 17 Motown rotted horribly around me (7)
• 20 Bring back not a single unknown element (5)
• 22 City has attracted German agreement to supply wine (5)
• 23 Diamond rush mob fell into chaos (7)
• 24 Court shrugging off fool's volume (4)
• 25 From bottom to top, springs fill up (5)

Down

• 1 Greetings to the head manservant (5)
• 2 Roman retinue's extraordinary salary (12)
• 3 Saving every top criminal to confirm happy endings (7)
• 4 Quasimodo had one intuition (5)
• 5 Information covers four, it's presumed (5)
• 6 Funny noble's quite a cuckoo (12)
• 7 One who persists in hanging around? (6)
• 12 Need to pay for love while on vacation (3)
• 13 Partly doffed or angled hat (6)
• 14 Polish finish for slide (3)
• 16 Concerned one with ten debts (7)
• 18 Animal is fine when placed with a Greek character (5)
• 19 Age of this group is reviewed there (5)
• 21 Secretly reckon a salary's on the nose (5)