June Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 Longing to enlist right in this first term (6)
• 4 Embodiment of mischief in the manner of an animal (6)
• 9 Pa turns tosses to ease off (7)
• 10 Base of French vessel (5)
• 11 A final letter with the middle missing’s about ancient culture (5)
• 12 Poetry school established by seers in theory (7)
• 13 Unsettle, as a rising does, sadly (11)
• 18 Generally those above fifty hide a bit of lard (7)
• 20 Run inside in a direction that aims at zero level (5)
• 22 Nice husband conceals love for Haka Dancer (5)
• 23 Oblique request for a topless jig (7)
• 24 It’s said when one leaves to study and grieve (6)
• 25 The absurdity of tyrant’s love for pillaged country (6)

Down

• 1 Set out for country to the north to look for the bird (6)
• 2 New but determined to be included (5)
• 3 Yes, in Spain an exotic bird augurs uniformly cool breeze (7)
• 5 Sadly Madrid has no way to get English papers and TV channels (5)
• 6 Helpful folk fold up a sari (2,5)
• 7 Like those without energy due to a disorder (6)
• 8 Operation following a winter that's been foul? (6-5)
• 14 Unemotional? But I lambaste aloud! (3-4)
• 15 Footwear Don's kin fancied? (7)
• 16 Companies taking on doctors for all out there (6)
• 17 Wanting more than what's good for the thin (6)
• 19 Name one another Eastern art form (5)
• 21 Say slogan of anti-noise activist brings dog (5)