September 2021 Puzzles and Solutions

Across

• 1 Radical I photographed capturing leader (6)
• 4 First and second numbers? (6)
• 9 Fiery seigneurs centrally gathered in debts (7)
• 10 Stones forming a band in absentia, randomly (5)
• 11 One lyric where there could be electricity (5)
• 12 Release chained beast (7)
• 13 Mires with fish and more fish (11)
• 18 I earn it in exchange for laziness (7)
• 20 Increases resulting from another lapse (5)
• 22 Time's changing things (5)
• 23 Decoration made from twisted metal by volunteers (7)
• 24 Sasses stupid judge (6)
• 25 House menace is extremely debonair and twisted Tory (3,3)

Down

• 1 Maniac attacked alligator (6)
• 2 Jargon befuddling open prisoners (5)
• 3 Drives new loppers (7)
• 5 Gag resistance and French church (5)
• 6 Repairman getting to grips with a bend (7)
• 7 Beetle's top quality, then second rate, following damage (6)
• 8 Lacy elastic pants with no frills (11)
• 14 Spend not so much? Rubbish! (7)
• 15 Molecule is improperly developed with no right or intellectual property (7)
• 16 Utensil I categorized partly as flint, perhaps (6)
• 17 Lion taking time to be oblique (6)
• 19 Jobs for military vehicles taking a new direction (5)
• 21 Post back final two parts of letter (5)