Puzzles and Solutions - March 2023

Across

• 1 Home counties very loudly gathering to leave (3,3)
• 4 Land, you noisy goose! (6)
• 9 Provokes former partners circling around it (7)
• 10 Arab Spring? (5)
• 11 Audibly criticise substitute teacher (5)
• 12 Boil sailor's courgette skin on board ship (7)
• 13 Open love (5)
• 15 Gives out second hour setback (5)
• 19 Agitated, churning tides drowning bishop (7)
• 20 Redhead meets alien that is secure again (5)
• 22 Specimen doesn't begin to reveal enough (5)
• 23 Scottish biscuit, messy taco and a fringe of kale (7)
• 24 Blue-ribbon leader moves to the far East for votes (6)
• 25 Cunning egghead drowned in Serpentine (6)

Down

• 1 Notice Jewish queen soundly sleeping after lunch (6)
• 2 Silent tiger climbing it (5)
• 3 Tense from now on in? No problem! (6,7)
• 5 He stopped to help a little green man having a change of heart after shopping (4,9)
• 6 Initially nasty armpit smell is growing (7)
• 7 Sasses stupid judge (6)
• 8 Same old American gangster taking you in (5)
• 14 Hobbles into extremely grotesque spot (7)
• 16 Get out of enormous empty cloak (6)
• 17 Fool's identity is on trial to start with (5)
• 18 In this place, express extremely unorthodox opinions (6)
• 21 Island's rising artist is forming a glitzy band (5)